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SEC Petition Evaluation Report

Petition SEC-00166

Report Rev #: 0 Report Submittal Date: July 26, 2010

Subject Expert(s): Roger Halsey, Jason Davis

Site Expert(s): N/A

Petition Administrative Summary

Petition Under Evaluation

Petition # Petition 

Type

Petition

Receipt Date

Qualification 

Date

DOE/AWE Facility Name

SEC-00166 83.13 February 12, 2010 March 26, 2010 Ames Laboratory

Petitioner Class Definition 

Scientists, production workers, technicians, salaried graduate students, physical plant workers, administrative and 

support staff who worked in the AEC and DOE facilities on the Ames Laboratory Campus variably known as 

Annexes 1 and 2, Hot Canyon, Wilhelm Hall or Metallurgy Building, Spedding Hall, Research and Chemistry 

Buildings at Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960, and excluding 

any workers covered by the SEC class approved for Petition SEC-00075.

Class Evaluated by NIOSH

All workers who worked in any DOE facilities on Ames Laboratory Campus from January 1, 1955 through 

December 31, 1960 (excluding any workers covered by the SEC class approved for Petition SEC-00075).

NIOSH-Proposed Class(es) to be Added to the SEC

All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and its contractors and subcontractors who 

worked in any area of the Department of Energy facilities on the Ames Laboratory Campus from January 1, 1955 

through December 31, 1960, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either 

solely under this employment, or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or 

more other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.

NOTE: NIOSH is continuing to research Ames Laboratory activities after 1960 to determine whether the class 

end date should be extended. If an extension is necessary, an 83.14 evaluation will be performed to add 

years.

Related Petition Summary Information 

SEC Petition Tracking #(s) Petition Type DOE/AWE Facility Name Petition Status

SEC-00038

SEC-00075

83.13

83.13

Ames Laboratory

Ames Laboratory

SEC class approved

SEC class approved

Related Evaluation Report Information 

Report Title DOE/AWE Facility Name

SEC Petition Evaluation Report for Petition SEC-00038

SEC Petition Evaluation Report for Petition SEC-00075

Ames Laboratory

Ames Laboratory

ORAU Lead Technical Evaluator: Roger Halsey ORAU Peer Review Completed By: Daniel Stempfley
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Peer Review Completed By: [Signature on file] 7/26/2010

LaVon Rutherford Date

SEC Petition Evaluation Reviewed By: [Signature on file] 7/30/2010

J. W. Neton Date

SEC Evaluation Approved By: [Signature on file] 7/30/2010

Stuart L. Hinnefeld Date
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Evaluation Report Summary: SEC-00166, Ames Laboratory

This evaluation report by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

addresses a class of employees proposed for addition to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) per the

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, as amended, 42 U.S.C.

§ 7384 et seq. (EEOICPA) and 42 C.F.R. pt. 83, Procedures for Designating Classes of Employees as 

Members of the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program Act of 2000.

Petitioner-Requested Class Definition

Petition SEC-00166 was received on February 12, 2010, and qualified on March 26, 2010. The 

petitioner requested that NIOSH consider the following class: Scientists, production workers, 

technicians, salaried graduate students, physical plant workers, administrative and support staff who 

worked in the AEC and DOE facilities on the Ames Laboratory Campus variably known as Annexes 1 

and 2, Hot Canyon, Wilhelm Hall or Metallurgy Building, Spedding Hall, Research and Chemistry 

Buildings at Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960.

Class Evaluated by NIOSH

Based on its preliminary research, NIOSH modified the petitioner-requested class. NIOSH evaluated 

the following class: All workers who worked in any DOE facilities on Ames Laboratory Campus from 

January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960 (excluding any workers covered by the SEC class 

approved for Petition SEC-00075).

NIOSH-Proposed Class(es) to be Added to the SEC

Based on its full research of the class under evaluation, NIOSH has defined a single class of 

employees for which NIOSH cannot estimate radiation doses with sufficient accuracy. The NIOSHproposed class includes all employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and its 

contractors and subcontractors who worked in any area of the Department of Energy facilities on the 

Ames Laboratory Campus from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960, for a number of work 

days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely under this employment, or in 

combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of 

employees in the Special Exposure Cohort. The class under evaluation was accepted (see Section 3.0 

below) because internal dose for radionuclides other than uranium cannot be bounded for employees 

working in the Research Building (Spedding Hall). Because Ames Laboratory employment data do 

not associate individuals with specific buildings or rooms, it is not possible to specify that certain 

people did not work in the Research Building; therefore, NIOSH must extend its inability to bound 

internal dose to all employees on the Ames Campus.

NOTE: NIOSH is continuing to research Ames Laboratory activities after 1960 to determine whether 

the class end date should be extended. If an extension is necessary, an 83.14 evaluation will 

be performed to add years.
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Feasibility of Dose Reconstruction

Per EEOICPA and 42 C.F.R. § 83.13(c)(1), NIOSH has established that it does not have access to 

sufficient information to: (1) estimate the maximum radiation dose, for every type of cancer for which 

radiation doses are reconstructed, that could have been incurred in plausible circumstances by any 

member of the class; or (2) estimate radiation doses of members of the class more precisely than an 

estimate of maximum dose. Information available from the site profile and additional resources is not 

sufficient to document or estimate the maximum internal and external potential exposure to members 

of the evaluated class under plausible circumstances during the specified period.

The NIOSH dose reconstruction feasibility findings are based on the following:

• Principal sources of internal radiation for members of the proposed class included exposures to 

thorium, thorium decay products including thoron, uranium, and the uranium decay products 

thorium-234 and protactinium-234m. Principal sources of external radiation for members of the 

proposed class included exposures to the uranium decay products thorium-234 and protactinium234m and the thorium decay products, primarily radium-228.

• NIOSH finds that it is feasible to bound occupational medical dose for Ames Laboratory workers 

during all periods with sufficient accuracy. NIOSH also finds that it is feasible to bound external 

dose for all members of the evaluated class. Adequate documentation of film badge results for the 

period supports the estimation of individual external exposures.

• NIOSH finds that survey and process data are sufficient to bound internal uranium exposures for 

Ames Laboratory workers who worked in the Chemistry Building (Gilman Hall) and the 

Metallurgy Building (Wilhelm Hall). Internal uranium exposures for workers in the Research 

Building (Spedding Hall) can be bounded by following the guidance in the Ames technical basis 

document (ORAUT-TKBS-0055) and the information provided in Site Profiles for Atomic 

Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and Thorium, Battelle-TBD-6001. 

• NIOSH finds there are insufficient data, including bioassay results, ambient air concentrations, or 

process information to estimate with sufficient accuracy internal exposures to radionuclides other 

than uranium for workers in the Research Building (Spedding Hall) including the Hot Canyon 

within the Research Building. In addition, the Cave within the Hot Canyon did not provide a 

degree of containment that precluded the release of radioactive materials into the air. The air 

within the Cave was shared by the workers outside of it. Lacking bioassay data for these workers, 

air samples for the room, or detailed information on the materials being handled, NIOSH cannot 

estimate with sufficient accuracy the internal doses to personnel working in the Hot Canyon. 

Because Ames Laboratory employment data do not associate individuals with specific buildings or 

rooms, it is not possible to specify that certain people did not work in the Research Building; 

therefore, NIOSH must extend its inability to bound internal dose to all employees on the Ames 

Campus.
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• Pursuant to 42 C.F.R. § 83.13(c)(1), NIOSH determined that there is insufficient information to 

either: (1) estimate the maximum radiation dose, for every type of cancer for which radiation 

doses are reconstructed, that could have been incurred under plausible circumstances by any 

member of the class; or (2) estimate the radiation doses of members of the class more precisely 

than a maximum dose estimate.

• Although NIOSH found that it is not possible to completely reconstruct radiation doses for all of 

the evaluated class, NIOSH intends to use any internal and external monitoring data that may 

become available for an individual claim (and that can be interpreted using existing NIOSH dose 

reconstruction processes or procedures). Therefore, partial dose reconstructions for individuals 

employed at Ames Laboratory during the period from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 

1960, but who do not qualify for inclusion in the SEC, may be performed using these data as 

appropriate.

Health Endangerment Determination

Per EEOICPA and 42 C.F.R. § 83.13(c)(3), a health endangerment determination is required because 

NIOSH has determined that it does not have sufficient information to estimate dose for the members 

of the evaluated class.

NIOSH did not identify any evidence supplied by the petitioners or from other resources that would 

establish that the proposed class was exposed to radiation during a discrete incident likely to have 

involved exceptionally high-level exposures. However, evidence indicates that some workers in the 

proposed class may have accumulated substantial chronic exposures through episodic intakes of 

radionuclides, combined with external exposures to gamma, beta, and neutron radiation. 

Consequently, NIOSH has determined that health was endangered for those workers covered by this 

evaluation who were employed for at least 250 aggregated work days either solely under their 

employment or in combination with work days within the parameters established for other SEC 

classes (excluding aggregate work day requirements).
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Table of Contents

1.0 Purpose and Scope.......................................................................................................................... 9

2.0 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 9

3.0 SEC-00166 Ames Laboratory Class Definitions.......................................................................... 10

3.1 Petitioner-Requested Class Definition and Basis................................................................ 11

3.2 Class Evaluated by NIOSH ................................................................................................. 11

3.3 NIOSH-Proposed Class(es) to be Added to the SEC.......................................................... 12

4.0 Data Sources Reviewed by NIOSH to Evaluate the Class........................................................... 12

4.1 Site Profile Technical Basis Documents (TBDs)................................................................ 13

4.2 ORAU Technical Information Bulletins (OTIBs) and Procedures ..................................... 13

4.3 Facility Employees and Experts.......................................................................................... 14

4.4 Previous Dose Reconstructions........................................................................................... 14

4.5 NIOSH Site Research Database .......................................................................................... 15

4.6 Documentation and/or Affidavits Provided by Petitioners ................................................. 15

5.0 Radiological Operations Relevant to the Class Evaluated by NIOSH......................................... 16

5.1 Ames Laboratory Plant and Process Descriptions............................................................... 16

5.2 Radiological Exposure Sources from Ames Laboratory Operations .................................. 19

5.2.1 Internal Radiological Exposure Sources from Ames Laboratory Operations......... 19

5.2.1.1 Uranium.................................................................................................... 19

5.2.1.2 Thorium.................................................................................................... 20

5.2.1.3 Thoron ...................................................................................................... 20

5.2.2 External Radiological Exposure Sources from Ames Laboratory Operations........ 20

5.2.2.1 Photon....................................................................................................... 20

5.2.2.2 Beta........................................................................................................... 22

5.2.2.3 Neutron ..................................................................................................... 23

5.2.3 Incidents .................................................................................................................. 23

6.0 Summary of Available Monitoring Data for the Class Evaluated by NIOSH ............................. 23

6.1 Available Ames Laboratory Internal Monitoring Data ....................................................... 23

6.2 Available Ames Laboratory External Monitoring Data ...................................................... 24

7.0 Feasibility of Dose Reconstruction for the Class Evaluated by NIOSH...................................... 26

7.1 Pedigree of Ames Laboratory Data ..................................................................................... 26

7.1.1 Internal Monitoring Data Pedigree Review............................................................. 27

7.1.2 External Monitoring Data Pedigree Review............................................................ 27

7.2 Evaluation of Bounding Internal Radiation Doses at Ames Laboratory............................. 28

7.2.1 Evaluation of Bounding Process-Related Internal Doses........................................ 28

7.2.2 Evaluation of Bounding Ambient Environmental Internal Doses........................... 28

7.2.3 Methods for Bounding Internal Dose at Ames Laboratory..................................... 30

7.2.3.1 Methods for Bounding Operational Period Internal Dose........................ 30

Research Building (Spedding Hall)......................................................................... 31
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7.2.3.2 Methods for Bounding Ambient Environmental Internal Dose ............... 33

7.2.4 Internal Dose Reconstruction Feasibility Conclusion ............................................. 33

7.3 Evaluation of Bounding External Radiation Doses at Ames Laboratory............................ 34

7.3.1 Evaluation of Bounding Process-Related External Doses....................................... 34

7.3.1.1 Personnel Dosimetry Data........................................................................ 34

7.3.1.2 Alternative Data Sources for Bounding External Dose............................ 35

7.3.2 Evaluation of Bounding Residual Period External Doses....................................... 35

7.3.3 Ames Laboratory Occupational X-Ray Examinations............................................ 35

7.3.4 Methods for Bounding External Dose at Ames Laboratory.................................... 36

7.3.4.1 Methods for Bounding Operational Period External Dose....................... 36

7.3.4.2 Methods for Bounding Ambient Environmental External Doses............. 37

7.3.5 External Dose Reconstruction Feasibility Conclusion............................................ 37

7.4 Evaluation of Petition Basis for SEC-00166....................................................................... 37

7.4.1 Lack of Routine Radiation Monitoring ................................................................... 37

7.4.2 Advisory Board Meeting Statements by DCAS Staff............................................. 38

7.5 Summary of Feasibility Findings for Petition SEC-00166.................................................. 39

8.0 Evaluation of Health Endangerment for Petition SEC-00166...................................................... 40

9.0 Class Conclusion for Petition SEC-00166 ................................................................................... 40

10.0 References .................................................................................................................................... 43

Attachment 1: Data Capture Synopsis................................................................................................... 49

Tables

4-1: No. of Ames Laboratory Claims Submitted Under the Dose Reconstruction Rule....................... 14

5-1: Gamma Emissions of Primary Interest .......................................................................................... 21

5-2: Beta Emissions of Primary Interest................................................................................................ 22

6-1: Ames Laboratory Dosimeter Program ........................................................................................... 25

6-2: Ames Laboratory Dosimeter Results Summary............................................................................. 25

7-1: Environmental Intake Estimates for Uranium and Thorium for Ames Laboratory....................... 28

7-2: Annual Fission Product Environmental Intake Estimates for the Hot Canyon.............................. 29

7-3: Inhalation and Ingestion Values for the Metallurgy Building ....................................................... 32

7-4: Estimated Thoron Concentrations in the Metallurgy Building...................................................... 33

7-5: Summary of Feasibility Findings for SEC-00166.......................................................................... 39
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SEC Petition Evaluation Report for SEC-00166

ATTRIBUTION AND ANNOTATION: This is a single-author document. All conclusions drawn from 

the data presented in this evaluation were made by the ORAU Team Lead Technical Evaluator: Roger 

Halsey, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. The rationales for all conclusions in this document are 

explained in the associated text.

1.0 Purpose and Scope

This report evaluates the feasibility of reconstructing doses for all workers who worked in any DOE 

facilities on Ames Laboratory Campus from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960 (excluding 

any workers covered by the SEC class approved for Petition SEC-00075). It provides information and 

analyses germane to considering a petition for adding a class of employees to the congressionallycreated SEC.

This report does not make any determinations concerning the feasibility of dose reconstruction that 

necessarily apply to any individual energy employee who might require a dose reconstruction from 

NIOSH. This report also does not contain the final determination as to whether the proposed class 

will be added to the SEC (see Section 2.0).

This evaluation was conducted in accordance with the requirements of EEOICPA, 42 C.F.R. pt. 83,

and the guidance contained in the Division of Compensation Analysis and Support’s (DCAS) Internal 

Procedures for the Evaluation of Special Exposure Cohort Petitions, OCAS-PR-004.1

2.0 Introduction

Both EEOICPA and 42 C.F.R. pt. 83 require NIOSH to evaluate qualified petitions requesting that the 

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) add a class of employees to the SEC. The 

evaluation is intended to provide a fair, science-based determination of whether it is feasible to 

estimate with sufficient accuracy the radiation doses of the class of employees through NIOSH dose 

reconstructions.

2

 

42 C.F.R. § 83.13(c)(1) states: Radiation doses can be estimated with sufficient accuracy if NIOSH 

has established that it has access to sufficient information to estimate the maximum radiation dose, 

for every type of cancer for which radiation doses are reconstructed, that could have been incurred in 

plausible circumstances by any member of the class, or if NIOSH has established that it has access to 

sufficient information to estimate the radiation doses of members of the class more precisely than an 

estimate of the maximum radiation dose.

 1 DCAS was formerly known as the Office of Compensation Analysis and Support (OCAS). 2 NIOSH dose reconstructions under EEOICPA are performed using the methods promulgated under 42 C.F.R. pt. 82 and 

the detailed implementation guidelines available at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas.
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Under 42 C.F.R. § 83.13(c)(3), if it is not feasible to estimate with sufficient accuracy radiation doses 

for members of the class, then NIOSH must determine that there is a reasonable likelihood that such 

radiation doses may have endangered the health of members of the class The regulation requires 

NIOSH to assume that any duration of unprotected exposure may have endangered the health of 

members of a class when it has been established that the class may have been exposed to radiation 

during a discrete incident likely to have involved levels of exposure similarly high to those occurring 

during nuclear criticality incidents. If the occurrence of such an exceptionally high-level exposure has 

not been established, then NIOSH is required to specify that health was endangered for those workers 

who were employed for at least 250 aggregated work days within the parameters established for the 

class or in combination with work days within the parameters established for other SEC classes 

(excluding aggregate work day requirements).

NIOSH is required to document its evaluation in a report, and to do so, relies upon both its own dose 

reconstruction expertise as well as technical support from its contractor, Oak Ridge Associated 

Universities (ORAU). Once completed, NIOSH provides the report to both the petitioner(s) and to the 

Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (Board). The Board will consider the NIOSH 

evaluation report, together with the petition, petitioner(s) comments, and other information the Board 

considers appropriate, in order to make recommendations to the Secretary of HHS on whether or not 

to add one or more classes of employees to the SEC. Once NIOSH has received and considered the 

advice of the Board, the Director of NIOSH will propose a decision on behalf of HHS. The Secretary 

of HHS will make the final decision, taking into account the NIOSH evaluation, the advice of the 

Board, and the proposed decision issued by NIOSH. As part of this decision process, petitioners may 

seek a review of certain types of final decisions issued by the Secretary of HHS.

3

3.0 SEC-00166 Ames Laboratory Class Definitions

The following subsections address the evolution of the class definition for SEC-00166, Ames 

Laboratory. When a petition is submitted, the requested class definition is reviewed as submitted. 

Based on its review of the available site information and data, NIOSH will make a determination 

whether to qualify for full evaluation all, some, or no part of the petitioner-requested class. If some 

portion of the petitioner-requested class is qualified, NIOSH will specify that class along with a 

justification for any modification of petitioner’s class. After a full evaluation of the qualified class, 

NIOSH will determine whether to propose a class for addition to the SEC and will specify that 

proposed class definition.

 3 See 42 C.F.R. pt. 83 for a full description of the procedures summarized here. Additional internal procedures are 

available at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas.
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3.1 Petitioner-Requested Class Definition and Basis

Petition SEC-00166 was received on February 12, 2010, and qualified on March 26, 2010. The 

petitioner requested that NIOSH consider the following class: Scientists, production workers, 

technicians, salaried graduate students, physical plant workers, administrative and support staff who 

worked in the AEC and DOE facilities on the Ames Laboratory Campus variably known as Annexes 1 

and 2, Hot Canyon, Wilhelm Hall or Metallurgy Building, Spedding Hall, Research and Chemistry 

Buildings at Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa, from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960.

The petitioner provided information and affidavit statements in support of the petitioner’s belief that 

accurate dose reconstruction over time is impossible for the Ames Laboratory workers in question. 

NIOSH deemed the following information and affidavit statements sufficient to qualify SEC-00166

for evaluation:

The petitioner stated that "radiation monitoring was not routinely performed during this 

era." NIOSH had previously identified and stated in the Site Profile for Ames Laboratory, 

ORAUT-TKBS-00055, that not all persons who worked at the laboratory wore film badges 

and that few, if any, bioassay results for the time period have been located.

Based on its Ames Laboratory research and data capture efforts, NIOSH determined that internal and 

external monitoring data records are not complete for all time periods or for all radionuclides. NIOSH 

concluded that there is sufficient documentation to support, for at least part of the requested time 

period, the petition basis that internal radiation exposures and radiation doses were not adequately 

monitored at Ames Laboratory, either through personal monitoring or area monitoring. The 

information and statements provided by the petitioner qualified the petition for further consideration 

by NIOSH, the Board, and HHS. The details of the petition basis are addressed in Section 7.4.

3.2 Class Evaluated by NIOSH

Based on its preliminary research, NIOSH modified the petitioner-requested class. NIOSH discovered 

that two of the buildings included in the petitioner-requested class were not part of the Ames 

Laboratory during the proposed timeframe. The building known as Chemistry Annex I (also 

historically known as "Little Ankeny"), the Old Women's Gymnasium, and the TX Casting Building 

were demolished in 1953 (Struss, 1986). The building known as Chemistry Annex II (also known as 

the TX Preparation Building) was transferred from the government to Ames University in 1953 and 

became the Plumbing Shop; this building was demolished in 1972 (Struss, 1986).

In addition, a subset of the proposed class has been previously addressed in SEC Petition Evaluation 

Report for Petition SEC-00075 (NIOSH, 2007). The class covered by this prior petition includes: 

Sheet metal workers, physical plant maintenance and associated support staff (includes all 

maintenance shop personnel of Ames Laboratory), and supervisory staff who were monitored, or 

should have been monitored, for potential internal radiation exposures associated with the 

maintenance and renovation activities of the thorium production areas in Wilhelm Hall (a.k.a. the 

Metallurgy Building or “Old” Metallurgy Building) at the Ames Laboratory, for the time period from 

January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1970 and who were employed for a number of work days 

aggregating at least 250 work days, either solely under this employment or in combination with work 
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days within the parameters (excluding aggregate work day parameters) established for other classes 

of employees included in the SEC.

Therefore, NIOSH defined the following class for further evaluation: All workers who worked in any

DOE facilities on Ames Laboratory Campus from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960 

(excluding any workers covered by the SEC class approved for Petition SEC-00075).

3.3 NIOSH-Proposed Class(es) to be Added to the SEC

Based on its research of the class under evaluation, NIOSH has defined a single class of employees for 

which NIOSH cannot estimate radiation doses with sufficient accuracy. The NIOSH-proposed class 

to be added to the SEC includes all employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, 

and its contractors and subcontractors who worked in any area of the Department of Energy facilities 

on the Ames Laboratory Campus from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960, for a number of 

work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely under this employment, or in 

combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of 

employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.

NOTE: NIOSH is continuing to research Ames Laboratory activities after 1960 to determine whether 

the class end date should be extended. If an extension is necessary, an 83.14 evaluation will 

be performed to add years.

4.0 Data Sources Reviewed by NIOSH to Evaluate the Class

As a standard practice, NIOSH completed an extensive database and Internet search for information 

regarding Ames Laboratory. The database search included the DOE Legacy Management Considered 

Sites database, the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) database, the Energy 

Citations database, the Atomic Energy Technical Report database, and the Hanford Declassified 

Document Retrieval System. In addition to general Internet searches, the NIOSH Internet search 

included OSTI OpenNet Advanced searches, OSTI Information Bridge Fielded searches, Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) Agency-wide Documents Access and Management (ADAMS) web 

searches, the DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments website, and the DOE-National Nuclear 

Security Administration-Nevada Site Office-search. Attachment One contains a summary of Ames 

Laboratory documents. The summary provides data capture details and general descriptions of the 

documents retrieved.

In addition to the database and Internet searches listed above, NIOSH identified and reviewed 

numerous data sources to determine information relevant to determining the feasibility of dose 

reconstruction for the class of employees under evaluation. This included determining the availability 

of information on personal monitoring, area monitoring, industrial processes, and radiation source

materials. The following subsections summarize the data sources identified and reviewed by NIOSH.
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4.1 Site Profile Technical Basis Documents (TBDs)

A Site Profile provides specific information concerning the documentation of historical practices at 

the specified site. Dose reconstructors can use the Site Profile to evaluate internal and external 

dosimetry data for monitored and unmonitored workers, and to supplement, or substitute for, 

individual monitoring data. A Site Profile consists of an Introduction and five Technical Basis 

Documents (TBDs) that provide process history information, information on personal and area 

monitoring, radiation source descriptions, and references to primary documents relevant to the 

radiological operations at the site. The Site Profile for a small site may consist of a single document. 

As part of NIOSH’s evaluation detailed herein, it examined the following TBDs for insights into 

Ames Laboratory operations or related topics/operations at other sites:

• Site Profile for Ames Laboratory, ORAUT-TKBS-0055; Rev. 01; Oak Ridge Associated 

Universities; December 18, 2009; SRDB Ref ID: 78037

• Site Profiles for Atomic Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and Thorium, Battelle-TBD6001, Rev. F0; Battelle; December 13, 2006; SRDB Ref ID: 30673

4.2 ORAU Technical Information Bulletins (OTIBs) and Procedures

An ORAU Technical Information Bulletin (OTIB) is a general working document that provides 

guidance for preparing dose reconstructions at particular sites or categories of sites. An ORAU 

Procedure provides specific requirements and guidance regarding EEOICPA project-level activities, 

including preparation of dose reconstructions at particular sites or categories of sites. NIOSH 

reviewed the following OTIBs as part of its evaluation:

• OTIB: Estimating the Maximum Plausible Dose to Workers at Atomic Weapons Employer 

Facilities, ORAUT-OTIB-0004, Rev. 03 PC-2; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; December 6, 

2006; SRDB Ref ID: 29949

• OTIB: Dose Reconstruction from Occupationally Related Diagnostic X-ray Procedures, ORAUTOTIB-0006, Rev. 03 PC-1; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; December 21, 2005; SRDB Ref 

ID: 20220

• OTIB: Interpretation of Dosimetry Data for Assignment of Shallow Dose, ORAUT-OTIB-0017, 

Rev. 01; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; October 11, 2005; SRDB Ref ID: 19434

• OTIB: Use of Coworker Dosimetry Data for External Dose Assignment, ORAUT-OTIB-0020, 

Rev. 02; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; December 4, 2008; SRDB Ref ID: 54985

• OTIB: Estimation of Neutron Dose Rates from Alpha-Neutron Reactions in Uranium and Thorium 

Compounds, ORAUT-OTIB-0024, Rev. 00, Oak Ridge Associated Universities; April 7, 2005; 

SRDB Ref ID: 19445
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4.3 Facility Employees and Experts

To obtain additional information, NIOSH interviewed four former Ames Laboratory employees. 

NIOSH selected individuals based on their known experience and the likelihood that they would be 

knowledgeable about: (1) workplace radiation fields, hazards, and practices to control worker 

exposure; (2) potential radionuclide intakes as evidenced by workplace controls, monitoring policies 

and procedures, and bioassay data; and (3) measurements of the beta, photon, and neutron exposure to 

workers.

• Personal Communication, 2010a, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory 

Employee; Telephone Interview by ORAU Team; May 5, 2010; SRDB Ref ID: 81938

• Personal Communication, 2010b, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory 

Physicist; Telephone Interview by ORAU Team; May 6, 2010; SRDB Ref ID: 81936

• Personal Communication, 2010c, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory 

Physics Assistant; Telephone Interview by ORAU Team; May 6, 2010; SRDB Ref ID: 81937

• Personal Communication, 2010d, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory 

Worker; Telephone Interview by ORAU Team member; May 28, 2010; SRDB Ref ID: 82038 

4.4 Previous Dose Reconstructions

NIOSH reviewed its NIOSH DCAS Claims Tracking System (NOCTS) to locate EEOICPA-related 

dose reconstructions that might provide information relevant to the petition evaluation. Table 4-1

summarizes the results of this review. (NOCTS data available as of July 9, 2010)

Table 4-1: No. of Ames Laboratory Claims Submitted Under the Dose Reconstruction Rule

Description Totals

Total number of claims submitted for dose reconstruction 157

Total number of claims submitted for energy employees who meet the definition criteria for the class 

under evaluation (January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960). 58

Number of dose reconstructions completed for energy employees who meet the definition criteria for 

the class under evaluation (i.e., the number of such claims completed by NIOSH and submitted to the 

Department of Labor for final approval). 36

Number of claims for which internal dosimetry records were obtained for the identified years in the 

evaluated class definition 0

Number of claims for which external dosimetry records were obtained for the identified years in the 

evaluated class definition 15
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NIOSH reviewed each claim to determine whether internal and/or external personal monitoring 

records could be obtained for the employee. Interviews conducted with claimants were reviewed for 

additional information relating to internal and external monitoring data. No additional internal or 

external monitoring data were identified from these interviews.

4.5 NIOSH Site Research Database

NIOSH also examined its Site Research Database (SRDB) to locate documents supporting the 

assessment of the evaluated class. Six hundred seventy-four documents in this database were 

identified as pertaining to Ames Laboratory. These documents were evaluated for their relevance to 

this petition. The documents include historical background on the site and processes, external 

monitoring data, and some bioassay data.

4.6 Documentation and/or Affidavits Provided by Petitioners

In qualifying and evaluating the petition, NIOSH reviewed the following documents submitted by the 

petitioners:

• Petition Form B for SEC-00166, February 12, 2010; OSA Ref ID: 111093

• Excerpt from the Ames Laboratory Radworker II Radiation Producing Device User’s Study Guide, 

Ames Laboratory Office of Environment, Safety, Health and Assurance; April 30, 2008; OSA Ref 

ID: 111093

• Excerpts from the Summary Meeting Minutes from the June 14-16, 2006 NIOSH/CDC Advisory 

Board Meetings, NIOSH/CDC Advisory Board on Radiation Worker and Health; June 14-16, 

2006; OSA Ref ID: 111093

• Excerpt from the March 1960 “Ames Laboratory News,” Institute for Atomic Research, Iowa 

State University; March 18, 1960; OSA Ref ID: 111093

• Single page excerpt from a document of unknown origin citing sites (including Ames) eliminated 

from FUSRAP consideration as of December 1987; December 1987; OSA Ref ID: 111093

• Excerpt from the Site Profile for the Ames Laboratory, ORAUT-TKBS-0055; December 18, 2009; 

OSA Ref ID: 111093

• Special Director’s Message: Elevated Beryllium Levels Identified in Inactive Spedding Hall Fume 

Hood Vent Stacks, Ames Laboratory; June 1, 2009; OSA Ref ID: 111093

• Single page of unknown origin describing types of wastes known to be at the site; unknown date; 

OSA Ref ID: 111093
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5.0 Radiological Operations Relevant to the Class Evaluated by 

NIOSH

The following subsections summarize both radiological operations at the Ames Laboratory from 

January 1955 to December 1960 and the information available to NIOSH to characterize particular 

processes and radioactive source materials. From available sources NIOSH has gathered process and 

source descriptions, information regarding the identity and quantities of each radionuclide of concern, 

and information describing processes through which radiation exposures may have occurred and the 

physical environment in which they may have occurred. The information included within this 

evaluation report is intended only to be a summary of the available information. 

5.1 Ames Laboratory Plant and Process Descriptions

The Ames Laboratory site consists of a number of buildings at Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, 

Iowa. The precursor of the Ames Laboratory was the Ames Project, which was established in 1942 by

a contract between the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago and Iowa State College

(the predecessor to Iowa State University) (Ames History, 1947). Ames Laboratory was established 

by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in May 1947 (Karsjen, 2003).

The Ames Project/Laboratory played a key role in the production of strategic nuclear materials for the 

Manhattan Project and the AEC. Early in 1942, at the beginning of the Manhattan Project, the most 

pressing problem was the preparation of large amounts of pure uranium metal and casting of that 

metal into the shapes necessary for the development of nuclear reactors fuel (Ames, 1960). Iowa State 

College Chemistry Department faculty with expertise in rare earth metallurgy was called on to 

develop a method to purify uranium and reduce the cost of production (Ames, 1960). 

The initial Ames process for uranium metal production was based on the chemical reduction of 

uranium tetrafluoride by calcium metal. Finely-ground uranium tetrafluoride was mixed with 

granulated calcium metal and the mixture was poured into a refractory-lined container. A fuse wire 

buried in the charge was electrically heated to initiate the reaction, which continued until both 

uranium metal and calcium fluoride were in the molten state. The more dense uranium collected at 

the bottom of the container where it was allowed to cool to room temperature, after which it was 

removed for casting. The uranium metal was cast by placing it in a graphite crucible, heating it in a 

vacuum, and allowing the liquid metal to flow into graphite molds of specific shapes (Ames History, 

1947). The uranium production process was improved (although made more complex) by replacing 

the calcium reagent with magnesium metal (Ames History, 1947). 

By November 1942, successful methods were developed and the Ames Project supplied 

approximately one-third of the uranium used in the Chicago pile (Karsjen, 2003). Between mid-1942 

and August 1945, more than 1,000 tons of pure uranium metal was supplied to the Manhattan Project 

(Ames, 1960). The Ames Project was asked to turn over its process to industry in 1945. 

Following bombardment experimentation in 1942, thorium was considered to be a potential 

alternative source of nuclear reactor fuel (Ames History, 1947). Thorium production had been 

initiated at the “Little Ankeny” facility as early as 1943. Production and research activities continued 

at Little Ankeny until 1949, when they were moved to the newly-completed “Metallurgy Building,” 
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which was built by DOE for Ames Laboratory research. The Metallurgy Building was later renamed 

Harley Wilhelm Hall. Purified thorium was produced at Wilhelm Hall using a five-stage process:

1. Solution and precipitation

2. Calcination and hydrofluorination

3. Metal reduction

4. Thorium metal casting

5. Machining

Prior to a turnover of thorium production to industry in April 1953, more than 65 tons of pure thorium 

metal and thorium compounds were produced by the Ames Laboratory (Ames, 1960). 

Chemistry Building (Gilman Hall)

The initial Ames Project work was conducted in the Chemistry Building in early 1942. The process 

for purifying uranium metal and the methods and equipment for increasing production were developed 

in the Chemistry Building (Ames History, 1947). Experiments to purify uranium metal continued 

through September, 1942 (Payne, 1992, pdf pp. 90-92). Pure uranium metal was being produced at a 

rate of 100 pounds per week by October (Wilhelm, post-1959, pdf p. 36). The chemical reduction 

component of the operations was moved to the Physical Chemistry Annex I by December. Uranium 

casting remained in the Chemistry Building until "early 1943" when it was also moved to Annex I 

(Wilhelm, post-1959, pdf p. 43). Uranium research continued in the Chemistry Building, including 

determination of uranium properties, studies of uranium corrosion, development of protective coatings 

for uranium, and development of uranium alloys and compounds (Ames History, 1947). Other 

research in the Chemistry Building involved development of pure thorium metal, thorium alloys and 

compounds, yttrium metal, cerium metal, and beryllium metal (Ames, 1960). Analytical work 

centered on plutonium chemistry and the radiochemistry of the separation of fission products from 

uranium and plutonium, which was conducted in the “hot laboratory” between 1942 and 1951 (Ames, 

1960). The Chemistry Building was decontaminated and surveyed in May 1976 (Voss, 1979).

Metallurgy Building (Wilhelm Hall) 

This report considers exposure sources other than those covered by the previous SEC Petition 

Evaluation Report for Petition SEC-00075 (NIOSH, 2007), which addressed a class of workers who 

also worked within the Metallurgy Building.

The Metallurgy Building, constructed by the AEC, was completed in October 1949 (Ames, 1951, pdf 

p. 7). The building houses research directed toward the development of special metals and alloys used 

in nuclear energy projects (Ames, 1962, pdf p. 23). Zircaloy was initially developed at Ames 

Laboratory as part of a basic study of the zirconium-tin alloy phase diagram (Ames, 1962, pdf p. 24). 

The subject of reactor coolants was studied, as were the heat-transfer properties of various metals and 

alloys (Ames, 1951). Equipment available for research, development, and production in metallurgy 

included many types of furnaces; high-vacuum systems; pyrometric devices; fabricating and testing 

machines; metallographs; X-ray diffractometers; and ultrasonic, spectrographic, dilatometric, and 

other instruments for examination and study of metals and alloys (Ames, 1962, pdf p. 24). A 

glovebox line in the Metallurgy Building was used to study the behavior of plutonium in molten metal 

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Thorium production and research activities were moved from Physical Chemistry Annex 1 to the 

Metallurgy Building in 1949 and thorium work continued until 1953 (Hokel, 1998). Poor 

contamination control practices and poor ventilation contributed to contamination of the building 

(Hokel, 1998). However, contamination levels have been reduced by mitigation, decontamination, 

remodeling, and renovation projects (Hokel, 1998). Contamination still exists in many interspatial 

areas of the building and in some relatively inaccessible areas (Hokel, 1998).

Research Building (Spedding Hall) 

The Research Building was constructed by the AEC and occupied in early 1951 (Ames, 1951). Many 

metals, including the rare earths, were investigated for mechanical, chemical, electrical, and other 

properties, and were studied by experimental techniques that probed the inner structures and forces of 

the materials (Ames, 1962). Research facilities in the building included a 150-kV accelerator that 

produced 14-MeV neutrons; a glovebox line for radiochemistry experiments; and a “Hot Canyon” 

(Ames, 1967). 

The Hot Canyon, a two-story-high room, included a shielded area called the "Cave" that allowed 

workers to use remote manipulators behind an eight-inch-thick steel wall with lead glass windows 

(Ames, 1962, pdf p. 12). Electrical, vacuum, water, gas, and compressed air lines built into the wall 

allowed workers to remotely perform experiments on highly-radioactive materials (Iowa Official 

Register, 1961-1962). There was no roof over the Cave nor was there any barrier to separate the air 

where the workers stood from the air where experiments were performed. In addition, photographs of 

workers in the Hot Canyon show them working without respiratory protection (Ames, 1962, pdf p 12; 

Iowa Official Register, 1961-1962, pdf pp. 253-255).

Research activities included electron beam welding; the study of electronic structure of metals; and 

the separation, preparation, and measurement of properties of the rare earth metals (Ames, 1967). The 

initial research on liquid metal coolants was done at Ames Laboratory in an engineering test loop used 

in corrosion, fluid-flow, and heat transfer studies with liquid sodium (Ames, 1967). 

Physical Chemistry Annex 1 

The production of uranium metal was conducted in the Physical Chemistry Annex 1 building, which 

was an old wooden structure east of the Dairy Industries building and west of Wallace Road (Karsjen,

2003). Uranium operations began there in mid-1942 and ended on August 5, 1945 when the uranium 

purification process was transferred to industry. More than 1,000 tons of pure uranium and more than 

300 tons of uranium scrap were produced during this period (Karsjen, 2003). In 1943, an open porch 

area was enclosed (to control dusty operations) and additions were constructed to accommodate 

increases in uranium production (Payne, 1992). Beginning in 1943, the building was also used to 

produce thorium metal until the processing equipment was transferred to the new Metallurgy Building 

in 1949 or 1950 (Ames, 1960). The Physical Chemistry Annex 1 building was torn down in 1953 

(Karsjen, 2003). 
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Physical Chemistry Annex 2 

The Physical Chemistry Annex 2 Building was a brick fireproof structure built east of Wallace Road 

in early 1944 to house the recovery of uranium from scrap uranium metal turnings collected from 

other Manhattan Project sites (Ames History, 1947). Operations in this building produced more than 

300 tons of recovered uranium metal through December 1945 (Ames History, 1947). Operations 

ended in 1953. Iowa State College, the predecessor to Iowa State University, purchased the building 

in 1953 and converted it to a plumbing shop; it was razed in 1972 (Ames, 1985). 

5.2 Radiological Exposure Sources from Ames Laboratory Operations

The following subsections provide an overview of the internal and external exposure sources for the 

Ames Laboratory class under evaluation.

5.2.1 Internal Radiological Exposure Sources from Ames Laboratory Operations

The primary source of internal radiological exposure resulting from Ames operations was inhalation 

and/or ingestion of uranium metal, uranium tetrafluoride, uranium decay products, thorium metal, 

thorium tetrafluoride, and thorium decay products,. 

5.2.1.1 Uranium

The radiological hazard presented by uranium metal or compounds results primarily from alpha 

particles emitted by U-238 (4.15 MeV and 4.20 MeV) and its isotopes U-235 (4.37 MeV, 4.40 MeV, 

and 4.58 MeV) and U-234 (4.27 MeV and 4.77 MeV). Naturally-occurring uranium is 0.71% (w/w) 

U-235 and 0.0055 (w/w) U-234. NIOSH assumes that uranium tetrafluoride received at Ames was 

derived solely from naturally-occurring ores. This assumption is based on the knowledge that the 

uranium produced at Ames was fabricated into fuel for use in the Chicago pile, which only used 

uranium of natural enrichment. On an activity basis (i.e., dpm/gram) the U-235 will be present in 

negligible amounts at these enrichment levels, but the U-234 activity will be at a level that is 

essentially equal to U-238 due to its much shorter half-life (2.46 x 105 years for U-234, and 4.47 x 109

years for U-238). 

Other alpha-emitting radionuclides occur naturally as part of the U-238 decay process. However, 

these would have been removed when the uranium feed materials were processed to generate the 

uranium tetrafluoride provided to Ames for the metal reduction process. Sufficient time would not 

have elapsed for the in-growth of these progeny to reach appreciable activities that would pose an

additional hazard to Ames personnel.

Uranium daughters, including radon, are not considered because of the short time since the process 

material was separated from the ore.
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5.2.1.2 Thorium

Th-232 decays into Ra-228, emitting two primary alpha particles of 3.95 MeV (24%) and 4.01 MeV 

(76%). The decay series contains several other progeny, most of which decay by alpha particle 

emission, but each has a half-life of less than 12 hours.

5.2.1.3 Thoron

One isotope of particular interest in the Th-232 decay chain is Rn-220, or thoron. It is a noble gas that 

is constantly being released to the atmosphere from Ra-228. Thoron and its daughter products 

become a source of internal exposure. Due to the short half-lives of the Th-232 daughters, the 

production of thoron activity is always between 42% and 100% of the Th-232 activity.

5.2.2 External Radiological Exposure Sources from Ames Laboratory Operations

Based on information and documentation available to NIOSH, the potential for external radiation 

doses from uranium, uranium decay products, thorium, and thorium decay products existed at the 

Ames Laboratory site. The following subsections provide an overview of the external exposure 

sources. 

5.2.2.1 Photon

Uranium metal and uranium tetrafluoride were handled by Ames Laboratory employees. External 

exposures to photon radiation would have resulted from the immediate daughter radionuclides in the 

uranium decay chain. The uranium progeny that result in the most significant photon exposures 

include Th-234 and Pa-234m (Rad Handbook, 1970). Note that these isotopes have relatively short 

half-lives and can be assumed to be in equilibrium with the parent U-238. Because of their short halflives, the exposure potential from these isotopes would travel with the parent and will not be 

considered separately.

The significance of emissions from thorium depends on the state of equilibrium with the Th-232 

parent (which is a factor of the time elapsed since the thorium process feed material was separated) 

(OCAS-IG-001). As time passed, thorium approached secular equilibrium. As a result, photon 

exposure rates would also have increased with the in-growth of Ra-228. Photon exposure rates as 

high as 22 mR/hr were reported for a thorium storage area, suggesting that this raw material for the 

thorium production process was not newly-separated (Klevin, 1952).
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Table 5-1 provides the energies of the gamma emission from the primary isotopes of concern at the 

Ames Laboratory. 

Table 5-1: Gamma Emissions of Primary Interest

Radionuclide Gamma Energy 

(MeV)

Uranium-238 None

Thorium-234 0.063 (3.5%)

0.093 (4%)

Protactinium-234m 0.766 (0.2%)

1.00 (0.6%)

Uranium-235

0.144 (11%)

0.163 (5%)

0.186 (54%)

0.205 (5%)

Thorium-231 0.026 (15%)

0.084 (6.5%)

Uranium-234 0.053 (0.1%)

Thorium-232 0.059 (0.19%)

0.126 (0.04%)

Radium-228 0.0067 (6 x 10-5%)

Actinium-228

0.338 (11.4%)

0.911 (27.7%)

0.969 (16.6%)

1.588 (3.5%)

Thorium-228

0.084 (1.19%)

0.132 (0.11%)

0.166 (0.08%)

0.216 (0.27%)

Bismuth-212

0.040 (1%)

0.727 (11.8%)

1.620 (2.75%)

Lead-208 2.614 (100%)

Source: Radiological Health Handbook, 1998. A more 

complete list for uranium and thorium progeny can be found 

in this document (Rad Handbook, 1998).
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5.2.2.2 Beta

Exposure to beta sources for Ames Laboratory employees would have resulted principally from 

uranium and thorium decay products. In the uranium-series decay scheme, beginning with U-238, the 

short-lived isotope Pa-234m emits the most energetic beta particle (2.28 MeV). It is this beta particle 

that accounts for the shallow-dose hazard associated with handling uranium and uranium tetrafluoride. 

Table 5-2 provides the energies of the beta emission from the primary isotopes of concern at the Ames 

Laboratory. 

Table 5-2: Beta Emissions of Primary Interest

Radionuclide Beta Energy 

(MeV, max.)

Uranium-238 None

Thorium-234 0.10 (19%)

0.193 (79%)

Protactinium-234m 2.28 (99%)

Uranium-235 None

Thorium-231

0.205 (15%)

0.287 (49%)

0.304 (35%)

Uranium-234 None

Thorium-232 None

Radium-228 0.0389 (100%)

Actinium-228

0.983 (7%)

1.014 (6.6%)

1.115 (3.4%)

1.17 (32%)

1.74 (12%)

2.08 (8%)

(+33 more • s)

Thorium-228 None

Bismuth-212 1.59 (8%)

2.246 (48.4%)

Lead-208 None

Source: Radiological Health Handbook, 1998. A more 

complete list for uranium and thorium progeny can be found 

in this document (Rad Handbook, 1998).
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5.2.2.3 Neutron

There was a small potential for personnel neutron exposures from the uranium operations at Ames 

Laboratory. As described in Section 5.2.1, site personnel received and handled uranium tetrafluoride. 

Low-atomic-number elements such as fluorine emit neutrons with an average energy of about 1.5 

MeV when struck by alpha particles (referred to as alpha-neutron [“• -n”] reactions). The intensity of 

the radiation field from these reactions increases as a function of the enrichment. Because only 

uranium with a natural isotopic ratio (“natural enrichment”) was used at Ames Laboratory, the 

radiation field was significantly lower than for the beta or gamma components; therefore, neutron 

radiation is not considered a significant exposure concern.

5.2.3 Incidents

NIOSH did not identify any documented accidents at the Ames Laboratory site that resulted in 

exceptionally high personnel exposure levels (such as a criticality event). During an interview, a 

former worker described an incident where two persons were present when a Co-60 sealed source was 

exposed. The worker did not have any details as to the strength of the source or when the incident 

happened but did specifically state that it was never documented. The worker stated that both persons 

present were wearing film badges and were shielded from the source by "solid" concrete blocks. The 

worker, who was a Health Physics Manager, also stated that the film badges "did not indicate anything 

(Personal Communication 2010a)."

Incident reports have been identified for several X-ray exposure incidents (Daane, 1959; Voss, 1959-

1960). In each of these cases, the employees involved are identified by name and the reports contain 

information on exposure time, X-ray tube operating potential, and tube current. Three minor 

contamination events have been identified (Contamination Reports, 1959-1961; Radiation Incident, 

1960), including a thorium spill in the Hot Canyon area of Spedding Hall (Thorium Data, 1957). In 

each of these cases, gamma and beta surface swipes were taken of potentially-contaminated areas and 

nasal swabs were taken from the employees involved. In the case of the Spedding Hall thorium spill, 

urinalysis was performed for two of the individuals involved. As with the X-ray exposure incidents, 

the employees involved in these three contamination incidents are identified by name in the 

corresponding documentation.

6.0 Summary of Available Monitoring Data for the Class Evaluated 

by NIOSH

The following subsections provide an overview of the state of the available internal and external 

monitoring data for the Ames Laboratory class under evaluation.

6.1 Available Ames Laboratory Internal Monitoring Data

A review of all documents and data available to NIOSH identified some bioassay data for the period 

from January 1, 1942 through December 31, 2005. Only limited in vitro bioassay data have been 

found for the years 1942 through 1945.
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NIOSH has identified 90 bioassay (urine) samples collected in March 1952 and analyzed for thorium 

by the AEC (Samples, 1952-1953). NIOSH has also identified approximately 70 bioassay (urine) 

samples collected and analyzed for thorium by the AEC in 1953 (Samples, 1952-1953). NIOSH has 

not identified any thorium bioassay samples or results after 1953. 

Most identified internal monitoring data are from the time prior to the class under evaluation, during 

uranium and thorium production. Urinalysis results for two individuals and nasal swipes for four 

individuals involved in a thorium spill incident have been located (Thorium Data, 1957). NIOSH has 

not identified any indication of a routine internal monitoring program for members of the class under 

evaluation or that is applicable for dose reconstruction for members of the class.

NIOSH has not located any documentation indicating that Ames Laboratory conducted a routine air 

sampling program for uranium, plutonium, or thorium during the operation of Ames Laboratory. 

However, NIOSH has found some air sampling data. Twenty-two general area air dust (uranium) 

samples were collected as part of a special study performed in May, June, and July of 1943 by the 

Army Corp of Engineers (Dust Samples, May-June 1943; Dust Samples, July 1943). The purpose of 

the sampling was not identified in the associated documentation. In addition, approximately 700 

general air sample results for thorium were collected in an AEC study performed in March 1952 

(Klevin, 1952); approximately 270 breathing zone air samples were also collected during this study. 

Air sampling data from Wilhelm Hall, collected by Iowa State University in February 1953, were also 

identified (Hokel, 1998).

Details regarding the various analyses used and the associated minimum detectable activities are 

presented in the Site Profile for Ames Laboratory (ORAU-TKBS-0055).

6.2 Available Ames Laboratory External Monitoring Data

Ames Laboratory staff received regular film badge service beginning in 1953. NIOSH has located 

film badge results for over five hundred individual workers during the time period under evaluation

(External Dose Records, 1952-2005). These records are biweekly results associated with named 

individuals and include gamma, beta, and in some cases, neutron exposure results.

NIOSH has examined available external records and has determined that not all of the workers in the 

class under evaluation were monitored for external radiation exposure during the 1955 through 1970 

time frame. External dosimetry use at Ames Laboratory appears to have targeted professional level 

staff employees who had a known potential for occupational exposure.

Details regarding the various analyses used and the associated minimum detectable activities are 

presented in the Site Profile for Ames Laboratory (ORAUT-TKBS-0055). Table 6-1 provides a brief 

summary of the external dosimetry program pertinent to this evaluation. Table 6-2 provides a 

summary of the external dosimetry records available to NIOSH for Ames employee external dose 

reconstruction.
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Table 6-1: Ames Laboratory Dosimeter Program

Dosimeter 

Type

Dosimeter 

Provider

Period of 

Use

Exchange 

Frequencya

MRDb (mrem) MDLc (mrem)

Skin • / • deep Neutron Skin Deep Neutron

• /• film

Ames 

Laboratory 

in-house 

system

Jan 1954–

Feb 1957 Biweekly 25 25 --- 40 40 ---

• /• film

Ames 

Laboratory 

in-house 

system

Mar 1957–

Dec 1961 Biweekly 10 10 --- 40 40 ---

• /•/NTA 

film

Brookhaven 

National 

Laboratory 

(BNL)

Apr 1954–

June 1957 Biweekly 15 15 10 40 40 ---

• /•/NTA 

film NCA

July 1957–

June 1963 Biweekly 10 10 10 40 40 ---

a. The exchange frequency was established from dosimetry reports.

b. MRD = minimum recordable dose; based on minimum doses recorded on dosimetry reports.

c. Estimated minimum detection level (MDL) typical of film dosimeter capabilities (NAS, 1989; NIOSH, 1993; Wilson, 

1960; Wilson, 1987; Wilson, 1990).

Table 6-2: Ames Laboratory Dosimeter Results Summary

Item Summarized 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960

Total number of dosimeters issued 2,433 2,324 * 2,582 2,936 2,319

Total number of neutron dosimeters issued 991 742 757 736 800 1,121

* Individual badge data not available. 

Details regarding the various analyses used and the associated minimum detectable activities are 

presented in the Site Profile for Ames Laboratory (ORAU-TKBS-0055).
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7.0 Feasibility of Dose Reconstruction for the Class Evaluated by 

NIOSH

The feasibility determination for the class of employees under evaluation in this report is governed by 

both EEOICPA and 42 C.F.R. § 83.13(c)(1). Under that Act and rule, NIOSH must establish whether 

or not it has access to sufficient information either to estimate the maximum radiation dose for every 

type of cancer for which radiation doses are reconstructed that could have been incurred under 

plausible circumstances by any member of the class, or to estimate the radiation doses to members of 

the class more precisely than a maximum dose estimate. If NIOSH has access to sufficient 

information for either case, NIOSH would then determine that it would be feasible to conduct dose 

reconstructions.

In determining feasibility, NIOSH begins by evaluating whether current or completed NIOSH dose 

reconstructions demonstrate the feasibility of estimating with sufficient accuracy the potential 

radiation exposures of the class. If the conclusion is one of infeasibility, NIOSH systematically 

evaluates the sufficiency of different types of monitoring data, process and source or source term data, 

which together or individually might assure that NIOSH can estimate either the maximum doses that 

members of the class might have incurred, or more precise quantities that reflect the variability of 

exposures experienced by groups or individual members of the class as summarized in Section 7.5. 

This approach is discussed in DCAS’s SEC Petition Evaluation Internal Procedures which are

available at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas. The next four major subsections of this Evaluation 

Report examine:

• The sufficiency and reliability of the available data. (Section 7.1)

• The feasibility of reconstructing internal radiation doses. (Section 7.2)

• The feasibility of reconstructing external radiation doses. (Section 7.3)

• The bases for petition SEC-00166 as submitted by the petitioner. (Section 7.4)

7.1 Pedigree of Ames Laboratory Data

This subsection answers questions that need to be asked before performing a feasibility evaluation. 

Data Pedigree addresses the background, history, and origin of the data. It requires looking at site 

methodologies that may have changed over time; primary versus secondary data sources and whether 

they match; and whether data are internally consistent. All these issues form the bedrock of the 

researcher’s confidence and later conclusions about the data’s quality, credibility, reliability, 

representativeness, and sufficiency for determining the feasibility of dose reconstruction. The 

feasibility evaluation presupposes that data pedigree issues have been settled.
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7.1.1 Internal Monitoring Data Pedigree Review

As discussed in Section 6.1, NIOSH has not located any documentation indicating that Ames 

Laboratory conducted routine air sampling or internal monitoring programs for uranium, plutonium, 

or thorium during the operation of Ames Laboratory. Therefore, an internal monitoring data 

sufficiency and pedigree evaluation is not possible for the internal monitoring data type. 

The urinalysis results corresponding to the thorium spill described in Sections 5.2.3 and 6.1 are 

handwritten entries in the original accident/incident data logs. 

Air sample results collected during a March 1952 AEC study are presented in report form and are 

variously recorded as daily weighted air concentrations, average breathing zone concentrations, and 

average general air concentrations (Klevin, 1952). Also included in this report are copies of the 

original, handwritten sample data sheets for 28 thorium air samples. Air sampling data from Wilhelm 

Hall, collected by Iowa State University in February 1953 (Hokel, 1998), includes 98 room survey 

results using an Eberline PAC-4G-3 meter and 53 results using a PUG-1E μR meter. These results 

carry units of cpm and mR/hr, respectively, and are reported variously as single survey measurements, 

data ranges, and averages of multiple surveys.

Although these measurements were taken outside the time period under evaluation, the data are used 

in ORAUT-TKBS-0055 to summarize air concentrations and daily intakes of Th-232 at Wilhelm Hall 

using the assumption that the highest measured air concentrations can be used as worst-case values to 

estimate subsequent thorium contamination levels after production ceased. ORAUT-TKBS-0055 

provides a methodology to interpolate inhalation and ingestion thorium values for the time period 

under evaluation based on these values.

7.1.2 External Monitoring Data Pedigree Review

NIOSH has access to film badge records for 538 employees over the evaluation period. For the years 

1955-1956 and 1958-1960, the badge records are in original handwritten reports and identified by the 

employee’s name and badge number. The reports list report gamma and beta data separately, and 

provide raw film badge density data along with calibration badge data and calibration curves. Data 

from these badge records are summarized in weekly exposure reports that divide the records by 

building. Annual reports are also available that list the total monthly exposure for each badged 

employee in mrep. For 1957, the available data are limited to the annual summaries, providing 

monthly exposures for each monitored individual.

NIOSH also has access to bi-weekly neutron badge reports for the entire evaluation period. As with 

the beta/gamma film badge reports, these reports are in the form of original, handwritten data logs that 

list the monitored individuals by name along with the total number of neutron tracks. Also provided 

in these reports are data for two control badges and four test badges for each bi-weekly period. 

In summary, the available external dosimetry monitoring data are available in sufficient quantity and 

quality to adequately represent external beta, photon, and neutron dose for the Ames Laboratory class 

under evaluation for the period from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960. 
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7.2 Evaluation of Bounding Internal Radiation Doses at Ames Laboratory

The principal source of internal radiation doses for members of the class under evaluation was 

inhalation and ingestion of uranium and thorium (ORAUT-TKBS-0055). The following subsections

address the ability to bound internal doses, methods for bounding doses, and the feasibility of internal 

dose reconstruction.

7.2.1 Evaluation of Bounding Process-Related Internal Doses

NIOSH has not located any urinalysis, other bioassay, or routine air sampling results for the class 

period under evaluation (January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960). Most identified internal 

monitoring data are from the time prior to the class under evaluation (during uranium and thorium 

production). 

Alternative Data Sources for Bounding Internal Dose

Although internal monitoring data are lacking, daily inhalation and ingestion values for internal 

uranium exposure may be estimated following the guidance in ORAUT-TKBS-0055 and the 

information provided in Site Profiles for Atomic Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and 

Thorium, Battelle-TBD-6001 (see Section 7.2.3).

Internal exposure from thorium and uranium operations to workers outside of the buildings (ambient 

environmental exposure) is estimated in ORAUT-TKBS-0055 (see Section 7.2.2).

7.2.2 Evaluation of Bounding Ambient Environmental Internal Doses

Internal exposure from thorium and uranium operations to workers outside of the buildings is 

estimated in ORAUT-TKBS-0055. In this TBD, assumptions are made regarding the releases made 

during the operational years and the resulting air concentrations. Post-operations levels are estimated 

to be one one-hundreth (1/100) of operational levels, as shown in Table 7-1.

Table 7-1: Environmental Intake Estimates for Uranium and Thorium for Ames Laboratory

Radionuclide(s) Absorption Type Intake (pCi/d)

U (assume U-234) F, M, or S 0.05

Th-232, Ra-228, Th-228 M or S 0.0007 each 

Source: ORAUT-TKBS-0055, Table 4-7
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In ORAUT-TKBS-0055, annual internal exposure estimates from fission products present in the Hot 

Canyon were estimated based on the maximum activity allowed in the containment, filtration 

efficiencies of the filter media used, and ratios of typical fission products; the estimates are shown in 

Table 7-2. These amounts were calculated using an annual throughput of 50 curies per year, an 

airborne fraction of 0.002, and a filter efficiency of 99.5% (Bihl, 2006).

This source term was dispersed into the air using the least-dispersing approach, and therefore, the 

mode resulting in the highest concentration, as recommended by NRCP Publication 123, Screening 

Models for Releases of Radionuclides to Air, Surface Water, and Ground Water (NCRP Pub 123, 

1996). This approach is also conservative because it assumes that workers are at the location with the 

highest air concentrations continuously and that wind and weather patterns remained constant and 

minimally-dispersing throughout the year.

Table 7-2: Annual Fission Product Environmental Intake Estimates

for the Hot Canyon

Radionuclide Intake (pCi/d)

Ce-141 1.92 

Ce-144 19.1

Cs-134 0.470

Cs-137 1.81 

Eu-155 0.122

Fe-55 1.50 

Nb-95 21.7 

Pm-147 4.75 

Ru-103 2.79 

Ru-106 7.34 

Sr-89 4.85 

Sr-90 1.37 

Y-91 7.93 

Zr-95 11.4 

Source: ORAUT-TKBS-0055, Table 4-2
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7.2.3 Methods for Bounding Internal Dose at Ames Laboratory

7.2.3.1 Methods for Bounding Operational Period Internal Dose

Chemistry Building (Gilman Hall)

Daily inhalation and ingestion values for internal uranium exposure may be estimated by following 

the guidance in Site Profiles for Atomic Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and Thorium, 

Battelle-TBD-6001. Contamination in the building resulted from the development of the metal 

reduction and recasting processes that were used in later, fully-operational facilities - the same

facilities that were used by the authors of Battelle-TBD-6001 to develop exposure estimates.

Battelle-TBD-6001 references ORAUT-OTIB-0004, Estimating the Maximum Plausible Dose to 

Workers at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities, to obtain a reasonable maximum time-weighted air 

concentration for facilities that refined uranium. In that document, it is assumed that 100 times the 

maximum allowable concentration (MAC) or 7000 dpm/m3 existed throughout the entire production 

area of the generic facility for one year. This results in a level of floor contamination of 3.44 x 107

pCi/square meter. Note that this is more than 100 grams of settled uranium dust per square meter.

While no measurements of the floor contamination in the Chemistry Building prior to the time period

under evaluation have been located by NIOSH, surveys made in 1974 employing a gas proportional 

survey meter found no readings in excess of background (Voss, 1979, pdf p. 19). 

In addition, an ambient level of 7000 pCi/m3 is conservative as "[v]entillating hoods to take the dust 

away from workers were already being used before the war and obviously continued throughout" and 

"typical laboratory precautions were taken" (Payne, 1992, pdf p. 206). 

Production in the Chemistry Building began in October 1942 and ended in early 1943, more than 

eleven years prior to the beginning of the time period under evaluation (1955 through 1960). Normal 

cleaning methods during these years would have reduced the floor contamination levels.

For the Ames Chemistry Building, the generic exposure estimate from Battelle-TBD-6001 is reduced 

by a factor of ten to obtain an air concentration of 3.4 pCi/m3. The reduction was made: (1) because 

the production time in the Chemistry Building was approximately six months instead of the full year 

assumed for generic production facilities in Battelle-TBD-6001; (2) because of the intervening years 

between the cessation of production and the beginning of the class period; and (3) because standard 

laboratory precautions that were taken. Thus, an employee working a ten-hour day in the Chemistry 

Building may be estimated to have received 4.1 pCi/day of uranium through inhalation. OCAS-TIB009, Estimation of Ingestion Intakes, uses a factor of 0.2 times the activity per cubic meter of air to 

obtain a daily ingestion estimate. This gives an estimate of 0.68 pCi/day of uranium ingested. These 

estimates are applied to all workers within the Chemistry Building.
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Research Building (Spedding Hall)

Radioactive materials in use in the Research Building were research quantities and were handled 

within glove boxes and remotely handled within the Cave in the Hot Canyon. There were no 

indications of breaches to the glove boxes in any of the reviewed documents, in any of the employee 

interviews, or in the petition.

A review of documents in the NIOSH database related to hot cells and glove boxes at other facilities 

indicated that the internal path is not a concern when there was no breach of the containment device. 

However, the Cave within the Hot Canyon did not provide containment similar to that described in 

these documents. Specifically, for the experiments being performed, the Cave did not provide a 

degree of containment that precluded the release of radioactive materials into the air (Iowa Official 

Register, 1961-1962). The air within the Cave was shared by the workers outside of it. Lacking 

bioassay data for these workers, air samples for the room, or detailed information on the materials 

being handled, NIOSH cannot estimate internal doses to personnel working in the Hot Canyon. 

Because Ames Laboratory employment data do not associate individuals with specific buildings or 

rooms (DOL, 2010), it is not possible to specify that certain people did not work in the Research 

Building; therefore, NIOSH must extend its inability to bound internal dose to all employees on the 

Ames Campus.

Metallurgy Building (Wilhelm Hall)

The Ames site profile, ORAUT-TKBS-0055, provides a process for estimating inhalation and 

ingestion thorium values for the years 1955 through 1960. Although no contamination measurements 

of the Metallurgy Building have been located for these years, measurements prior to the time period 

and after it are documented (Klevin, 1952; Hokel, 1998). ORAUT-TKBS-0055 provides a 

methodology to interpolate levels for the intervening years based on the known data. 

The methodology assumes a continuous rate of contamination reduction between the 1952 levels 

(Klevin, 1952) and levels found in later surveys (beginning in 1984 and continuing through the early 

1990s) (Hokel, 1998). This is a conservative assumption because the later survey results indicated no 

detectable thorium levels in the majority of locations in the building; thorium contamination was 

located only in relatively inaccessible areas. The method in ORAUT-TKBS-0055 assumes that the 

highest levels found were present throughout the building. 
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Table 7-3 lists the estimated inhalation and ingestion values for the class period under evaluation.

Table 7-3: Inhalation and Ingestion Values for the Metallurgy Building

Year Air concentration 

(dpm/m3)

Chronic inhalation intake 

(pCi/d)

Chronic ingestion intake

(pCi/d)

1955 448 1330 40.4

1956 392 1160 35.3

1957 343 1020 30.9

1958 300 887 27

1959 262 776 23.6

1960 229 679 20.6

The methodology applied to the Metallurgy Building is different from that applied to the Chemistry 

Building because of two significant differences: (1) the contamination levels in the Metallurgy 

Building prior to and after the class period were documented; and (2) in an application to the State 

Historical Society of Iowa, the historical integrity of the building is characterized as "high” 

(Architectural Survey, 2009); in other words, much of the interior surfaces remain as they were when 

constructed.

NOTE: This methodology was not applicable to the Metallurgy Building in the previous evaluation 

for petition SEC-00075 because the persons within that class worked closely with expected, but 

unmeasured, thorium contamination in air ducts resulting from production operations. However, this 

methodology does serve to bound the thorium dose in this work location for the worker class 

evaluated in this report (excluding any workers covered by the SEC class approved for Petition 

SEC-00075).

Thoron would be produced in the Metallurgy Building as a result of the presence of thorium. A 1953 

survey found an average level of 5.86 pCi/l of thoron in the building (Klevin, 1952, pdf p. 4). A 1996 

survey found no thoron in excess of background. (Hokel, 1998, pdf p. 11) 

Following the same logic as above, estimates may be made for the intervening years, including the 

years of the class under evaluation. Because the thoron is produced from the thorium contamination, 

thoron would have been reduced (in a proportional fashion) as the thorium itself was reduced. This 

method is conservative because the thoron measured in 1953 was a result of production levels of 

thorium present while the thoron levels during the time period under evaluation resulted from only 

residual contamination. 

The amount of thoron being released in 1953 would have been a function of the time since the thorium 

was separated from its daughters. The 1953 value is divided by 42% to obtain 13.9 pCi/l because that 

is the least equilibrium ratio for Ra-224 (the immediate parent to thoron) to Th-232, and the 

contamination in the period under evaluation can be assumed to be in full equilibrium between the two 

isotopes. Table 7-4 shows the estimated thoron concentrations for the Ames Metallurgy Building.
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Table 7-4: Estimated Thoron Concentrations in the Metallurgy Building

Year Air Concentration (pCi/l)

1955 11.2

1956 10.0

1957 9.0

1958 8.0

1959 7.2

1960 6.5

7.2.3.2 Methods for Bounding Ambient Environmental Internal Dose

As discussed in Section 7.2.2, internal exposure from thorium and uranium operations to workers 

outside of the buildings is estimated in ORAUT-TKBS-0055. In this TBD, assumptions are made 

regarding the releases made during the operational years and the resulting air concentrations. Postoperations levels are estimated to be one one-hundreth (1/100) of operational levels (see Table 7-1).

Annual internal exposure estimates from fission products present in the Hot Canyon were estimated 

based on the maximum activity allowed in the containment, filtration efficiencies of the filter media 

used, and ratios of typical fission products (see Table 7-2). This source term was dispersed into the 

air using the least-dispersing approach, and therefore, the mode resulting in the highest concentration, 

as recommended by NRCP Publication 123, Screening Models for Releases of Radionuclides to Air, 

Surface Water, and Ground Water (NCRP Pub 123, 1996). This approach is also conservative 

because it assumes that workers are at the location with the highest air concentrations continuously 

and that wind and weather patterns remained constant and minimally-dispersing throughout the year.

7.2.4 Internal Dose Reconstruction Feasibility Conclusion

NIOSH finds that survey and process data are sufficient to bound internal uranium exposures for 

Ames Laboratory workers who worked in the Chemistry Building (Gilman Hall) and the Metallurgy 

Building (Wilhelm Hall). Internal uranium exposures for workers in the Research Building (Spedding 

Hall) can be bounded by following the guidance in the Ames technical basis document (ORAUTTKBS-0055) and the information provided in Site Profiles for Atomic Weapons Employers that 

Refined Uranium and Thorium, Battelle-TBD-6001.

NIOSH finds there are insufficient data, including bioassay results, ambient air concentrations, or 

process information to estimate with sufficient accuracy internal exposures to radionuclides other than 

uranium for workers in the Research Building (Spedding Hall) including the Hot Canyon within the 

Research Building. In addition, the Cave within the Hot Canyon did not provide a degree of 

containment that precluded the release of radioactive materials into the air. Ames Laboratory 

employment data do not associate individuals with specific buildings or rooms. Therefore, NIOSH 

finds that it is infeasible to completely reconstruct internal doses for the class under evaluation due to

insufficient monitoring data, limitations on the degree of containment in the Research Building, and 

the inability to specify that certain people did not work in the Research Building.
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Although NIOSH found that it is not possible to completely reconstruct internal radiation doses for the 

period from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960, NIOSH intends to use any internal 

monitoring data that may become available for an individual claim (and that can be interpreted using 

existing NIOSH dose reconstruction processes or procedures). Dose reconstructions for individuals 

employed at Ames Laboratory during the period from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960, 

but who do not qualify for inclusion in the SEC, may be performed using these data as appropriate.

7.3 Evaluation of Bounding External Radiation Doses at Ames Laboratory

The principal source of external radiation doses for members of the evaluated class was uranium and 

thorium from production and research operations (ORAUT-TKBS-0055).

The following subsections address the ability to bound external doses, methods for bounding doses, 

and the feasibility of external dose reconstruction.

7.3.1 Evaluation of Bounding Process-Related External Doses

The following subsections summarize the extent and limitations of information available for 

reconstructing the process-related external doses of members of the class under evaluation.

7.3.1.1 Personnel Dosimetry Data

During the period under evaluation, process and research-related external exposures were monitored 

with film badges. For certain workers, the records available to NIOSH are essentially complete 

(ORAUT-TKBS-0055, Section 6.0).

While external dosimetry data are not available for all members of the class under evaluation, 

monitoring data do exist for some Ames Laboratory employees within the class. Workers with job 

titles such as scientist, chemist, metallurgist, engineer, technician, or machinist (who were more likely 

to incur known higher exposures) were typically monitored for external exposures (ORAUT-TKBS0055, Section 6.3.1). These workers were exposed to sources that included electron accelerators, 

electron beam welding, beta-ray spectrometers, and X-ray and neutron diffraction spectrometers. 

NIOSH believes that external monitoring data obtained from workers associated with the 

aforementioned activities can be used to bound external exposures to all members of the class under 

evaluation.

Photon

The available personnel external monitoring data, in the form of film badge results, provide external 

photon/gamma dose information for the personnel working during the operational period at the Ames 

Laboratory. These data are sufficient to support bounding photon dose for members of the class under 

evaluation, as described in Section 7.3.4.1.
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Beta

The available personnel external monitoring data, in the form of film badge results, provide external 

beta dose information for the personnel working during the operational period at the Ames 

Laboratory. These data are sufficient to support bounding photon dose for members of the class under 

evaluation, as described in Section 7.3.4.1.

Neutron

The available personnel external monitoring data, in the form of film badge results, provide external

neutron dose information for the personnel working during the operational period at the Ames 

Laboratory. These data are sufficient to support bounding photon dose for members of the class under 

evaluation, as described in Section 7.3.4.1.

7.3.1.2 Alternative Data Sources for Bounding External Dose

A co-worker data study has been performed to permit dose reconstruction for individuals for which 

external monitoring data were unavailable or incomplete. The co-worker data study for Ames 

Laboratory includes all available dosimetry records from 1952 through 1981 (ORAUT-TKBS-0055). 

All dose results were analyzed, including zeros and blank values, to determine the 50th- and 95th

percentile doses for each year for beta, gamma, and neutron exposures (McCartney, 2006). If any part 

of a worker’s dosimetry record was missing (or unidentified as in the case where dosimetry was not 

provided), the 95th-percentile dose from the co-worker data would be applied in the years for which 

records are missing (ORAUT-OTIB-0020). Details of the co-worker study and its application can be 

found in ORAUT-TKBS-0055.

7.3.2 Evaluation of Bounding Residual Period External Doses

The Site Profile for Ames Laboratory describes the rationale, historical background, and data for 

reconstructing ambient environmental external doses for unmonitored personnel who were outside 

operational facilities on the site (ORAUT-TKBS-0055). External dose from radioactive materials 

outside the body may be determined from immersion in a cloud of inert gases, deposition of particles 

on the skin, or adjacent operational facilities. As discussed in the Site Profile, these environmental 

doses may be assigned to Ames Laboratory claimants for the applicable periods as defined for each 

Ames Laboratory location.

7.3.3 Ames Laboratory Occupational X-Ray Examinations

Occupational medical examinations were conducted for the staff of Ames Laboratory as prescribed by 

the Medical Services of the Manhattan Project (Stone, 1951; Van Horn, 1943). Pre-employment 

examinations included a chest X-ray and urine analysis. Annual physical examinations also included 

a chest X-ray. X-ray film records from the early and mid-1950s indicated that some workers, likely

those working with beryllium, received chest X-rays on a quarterly frequency while other workers 

might have chest X-rays on an annual or semiannual frequency. In 1957, the frequency of chest Xrays was changed to twice per year for all Ames Laboratory staff (Van Bemmel, 1957). X-ray film 

records indicate that the frequency of chest X-rays was changed to annual in 1960 and biannual in 

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response to data requests for each claim. X-ray examinations of Ames Laboratory staff members were 

conducted at the Iowa State Student Health Center/College Hospital. All X-ray films examined in the 

archives at Ames Laboratory were 14-inches by 17-inches; there was no evidence of any X-rays being 

taken with photofluorographic X-ray equipment.

7.3.4 Methods for Bounding External Dose at Ames Laboratory

There is an established protocol for assessing external exposure when performing dose reconstructions 

(these protocol steps are discussed in the following subsections):

• Photon Dose

• Beta Dose

• Neutron Dose

• Medical X-ray Dose

7.3.4.1 Methods for Bounding Operational Period External Dose

Photon Dose

External photon doses can be reconstructed for the period January 1, 1955 through December 31, 

1960 by applying co-worker photon dose distributions for workers without monitoring data, or for 

each monitoring period where results are not provided. Due to the lack of production activities during 

this time period, the co-worker dose distributions for Ames Laboratory for this period are based on 

monitoring records for individuals performing research activities. These individuals represent the 

population with the maximum exposure potential; maximum recorded exposures for this group can be 

used to bound the dose for other Ames Laboratory workers.

Beta Dose

Shallow doses can be reconstructed for the period January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960 by 

applying co-worker dose distributions for workers without monitoring data, or for each monitoring 

period where results are not provided. Due to the lack of production activities during this time period, 

the co-worker dose distributions for Ames Laboratory for this period are based on monitoring records 

for individuals performing research activities. These individuals represent the population with the 

maximum exposure potential; maximum recorded exposures for this group can be used to bound the 

dose for other Ames Laboratory workers.

Neutron Dose

Neutron doses can be reconstructed for the period January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960 by 

applying co-worker dose distributions for workers without monitoring data, or for each monitoring 

period where results are not provided. Due to the lack of production activities during this time period, 

the co-worker dose distributions for Ames Laboratory for this period are based on monitoring records 

for individuals performing research activities. These individuals represent the population with the 

maximum exposure potential; maximum recorded exposures from this group can be used to bound the 

dose for other Ames Laboratory workers.
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Medical X-ray Dose

NIOSH considers reconstruction of medical dose for all Ames Laboratory workers feasible by using 

actual claimant data, the X-ray examination frequencies documented in Section 7.3.3, and the 

bounding assumptions and applicable protocols specified in the complex-wide Technical Information 

Bulletin: Dose Reconstruction from Occupationally Related Diagnostic X-Ray Procedures, ORAUTOTIB-0006.

7.3.4.2 Methods for Bounding Ambient Environmental External Doses

Ambient environmental dose for monitored workers is accounted for in an individual’s recorded dose. 

Potential ambient environmental dose for unmonitored workers, such as non-badged administrative 

personnel, is bounded by the available data for monitored individuals, as assessed in this report or can 

be reconstructed on a case-by-case basis following the guidance in ORAUT-TKBS-0055. 

Occupational environmental dose was not measured (i.e., via direct radiation dosimeters) until 1953

when workers were badged (Badging, 2006; Synchrotron Badging, 2006); it was not calculated from 

environmental media concentrations until 1962 (Voss, 1963).

External exposures to workers outside the buildings from thorium and uranium operations were 

negligible and may have been captured through routine film badge dosimetry. However, during the 

class period under evaluation, the laboratory also operated a synchrotron. Details of the exposure 

assumptions are contained in ORAUT-TKBS-0055. Results from a survey taken during a full-power 

test (Synchrotron Survey, 1961) were used to estimate the highest potential exposure due to sky shine 

to a worker who was close to, but not within, the facility bounds. This provides an additional 25 

millirem of external exposure per year. This estimate is very conservative because it assumes that the 

synchrotron operated at full power throughout each year even though it rarely operated at those levels,

and also assumes that workers would have been continuously at the same location during the year.

7.3.5 External Dose Reconstruction Feasibility Conclusion

NIOSH considers reconstruction of external radiation dose feasible for the Ames worker class under 

evaluation. Such reconstruction can be accomplished using co-worker data distributions and the 

bounding assumptions and applicable protocols specified in various complex-wide Technical 

Information Bulletins. NIOSH also considers reconstruction of medical X-ray dose feasible.

7.4 Evaluation of Petition Basis for SEC-00166

The following subsections evaluate the assertions made on behalf of petition SEC-00166 for the Ames 

Laboratory.

7.4.1 Lack of Routine Radiation Monitoring

SEC-00166: It is not feasible to estimate exposures with reasonable accuracy using very limited data. 

Since they did not have any monitoring records for me and stated they could only do a partial dose 

reconstruction for me, I should be automatically considered for the SEC.
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Response: NIOSH reviewed the petitioner’s personal dose reconstruction report and determined that a 

complete and accurate dose reconstruction was completed; however, NIOSH also determined that 

some of the associated discussion in the report was in error and, therefore, misleading. The discussion

unnecessarily mentions the inability to completely reconstruct doses for workers specified in the 

evaluation report for petition SEC-00075. The petitioner did not fall under this class of workers, 

which included: sheet metal workers, physical plant maintenance and associated support staff 

(including all maintenance shop personnel of Ames Laboratory), and supervisory staff who were 

monitored, or should have been monitored for potential internal radiation exposures associated with 

the maintenance and renovation activities of the thorium production areas in Wilhelm Hall (a.k.a. the 

Metallurgy Building or “Old” Metallurgy Building) at the Ames Laboratory, for the time period from 

January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1970.

Consequently, the petitioner filed an SEC petition (SEC-00166). However, the petitioner held a job 

function for which monitoring would not be expected. As described in Section 7.3, while external 

dosimetry data are not available for all members of the class under evaluation, monitoring data do 

exist for some Ames Laboratory employees in the class. Workers with job titles such as scientist, 

chemist, metallurgist, engineer, technician, or machinist (who were more likely to incur known higher 

exposures) were typically monitored for external exposures (ORAUT-TKBS-0055, Section 6.3.1). 

These data were used to develop a co-worker model that assigns doses based on job titles to workers 

who may not have been monitored.

7.4.2 Advisory Board Meeting Statements by DCAS Staff

SEC-00166: The petitioner asserts that Advisory Board meeting notes point to limitations in the 

available data that might prevent the completion of dose reconstructions for members of the class

under evaluation. Specifically, the petition points to the following statements made by Dr. Neton, 

Associate Director of Science, Division of Compensation Analysis and Support:

“... as a whole, dosimetry data is sparse. Monitoring and source term information is spotty. 

Under the first prong of the two-prong test established by EEOICPA, NIOSH came to the 

determination that the available monitoring records and process description are insufficient to 

complete dose reconstruction with sufficient accuracy.”

Response: The statements noted above were made in reference to the time period evaluated under the 

SEC-00038 petition. They do not specifically indicate a lack of monitoring data or limitations in 

monitoring data that would prevent the completion of dose reconstructions for the January 1, 1955 

through December 31, 1960 time period. 
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7.5 Summary of Feasibility Findings for Petition SEC-00166

This report evaluates the feasibility for completing dose reconstructions for employees at the Ames 

Laboratory from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960. NIOSH found that the available 

monitoring records, process descriptions and source term data available are not sufficient to complete 

dose reconstructions for all members of the evaluated class of employees.

Table 7-5 summarizes the results of the feasibility findings at Ames Laboratory for each exposure 

source during the time period January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960.

Table 7-5: Summary of Feasibility Findings for SEC-00166

January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960

Source of Exposure Reconstruction Feasible Reconstruction Not Feasible

Internal X

 - U and progeny X

 - Th and progeny X

 - Other Radionuclides (Research Bldg.) X

External X

 - Gamma X

 - Beta X

 - Neutron X

 - Occupational Medical X-ray X

NOTE: NIOSH is continuing to research Ames Laboratory activities after 1960 to determine 

whether the class end date should be extended. If an extension is necessary, an 83.14 

evaluation will be performed to add years.

As of July 9, 2010, a total of 58 claims have been submitted to NIOSH for individuals who worked at 

Ames Laboratory and are covered by the class definition evaluated in this report. Dose 

reconstructions have been completed for 36 individuals (~62%).

Although NIOSH found that it is not possible to completely reconstruct radiation doses for the 

proposed class, NIOSH intends to use any internal and external monitoring data that may become 

available for an individual claim (and that can be interpreted using existing NIOSH dose 

reconstruction processes or procedures). Therefore, dose reconstructions for individuals employed at 

Ames Laboratory during the period from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960, but who do not 

qualify for inclusion in the SEC, may be performed using these data as appropriate.
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8.0 Evaluation of Health Endangerment for Petition SEC-00166

The health endangerment determination for the class of employees covered by this evaluation report is 

governed by both EEOICPA and 42 C.F.R. § 83.13(c)(3). Under these requirements, if it is not 

feasible to estimate with sufficient accuracy radiation doses for members of the class, NIOSH must 

also determine that there is a reasonable likelihood that such radiation doses may have endangered the 

health of members of the class. Section 83.13 requires NIOSH to assume that any duration of 

unprotected exposure may have endangered the health of members of a class when it has been 

established that the class may have been exposed to radiation during a discrete incident likely to have 

involved levels of exposure similarly high to those occurring during nuclear criticality incidents. If 

the occurrence of such an exceptionally high-level exposure has not been established, then NIOSH is 

required to specify that health was endangered for those workers who were employed for a number of 

work days aggregating at least 250 work days within the parameters established for the class or in 

combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of 

employees in the SEC. 

Due to the limitation on the degree of containment in the Cave within the Hot Canyon and insufficient 

data (i.e., bioassay results, ambient air concentrations, or process information), it is not feasible to 

estimate internal radiation dose for workers in the Research Building (Spedding Hall). Because Ames 

Laboratory employment data do not associate individuals with specific buildings or rooms, it is not 

possible to specify that certain people did not work in the Research Building; therefore, NIOSH must 

extend its inability to bound internal dose to all employees on the Ames Campus for the period from 

January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960. NIOSH’s evaluation determined that it is not feasible to 

estimate radiation dose for members of the NIOSH-evaluated class with sufficient accuracy based on 

the sum of information available from available resources. Modification of the class definition 

regarding health endangerment and minimum required employment periods, therefore, is required.

9.0 Class Conclusion for Petition SEC-00166

Based on its full research of the class under evaluation, NIOSH has defined a single class of 

employees for which NIOSH cannot estimate radiation doses with sufficient accuracy. The NIOSHproposed class to be added to the SEC includes all employees of the Department of Energy, its 

predecessor agencies, and its contractors and subcontractors who worked in any area of the

Department of Energy facilities on the Ames Laboratory Campus from January 1, 1955 through 

December 31, 1960, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either 

solely under this employment, or in combination with work days within the parameters established for 

one or more other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort. The class under evaluation 

was accepted because internal dose for radionuclides other than uranium cannot be bounded for 

employees working in the Research Building (Spedding Hall). Because Ames Laboratory 

employment data do not associate individuals with specific buildings or rooms, it is not possible to 

specify that certain people did not work in the Research Building; therefore, NIOSH must extend its

inability to bound internal dose to all employees on the Ames Campus.
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NOTE: NIOSH is continuing to research Ames Laboratory activities after 1960 to determine whether 

the class end date should be extended. If an extension is necessary, an 83.14 evaluation will 

be performed to add years.

NIOSH has carefully reviewed all material sent in by the petitioner, including the specific assertions 

stated in the petition, and has responded herein (see Section 7.4). NIOSH has also reviewed available 

technical resources and many other references, including the Site Research Database (SRDB), for 

information relevant to SEC-00166. In addition, NIOSH reviewed its NOCTS dose reconstruction 

database to identify EEOICPA-related dose reconstructions that might provide information relevant to 

the petition evaluation.

These actions are based on existing, approved NIOSH processes used in dose reconstruction for 

claims under EEOICPA. NIOSH’s guiding principle in conducting these dose reconstructions is to 

ensure that the assumptions used are fair, consistent, and well-grounded in the best available science. 

Simultaneously, uncertainties in the science and data must be handled to the advantage, rather than to 

the detriment, of the petitioners. When adequate personal dose monitoring information is not 

available, or is very limited, NIOSH may use the highest reasonably possible radiation dose, based on 

reliable science, documented experience, and relevant data to determine the feasibility of 

reconstructing the dose of an SEC petition class. NIOSH contends that it has complied with these 

standards of performance in determining the feasibility or infeasibility of reconstructing dose for the 

class under evaluation.
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10.0 References

42 C.F.R. pt. 81, Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Causation Under the Energy 

Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000; Final Rule, Federal 

Register/Vol. 67, No. 85/Thursday, p 22,296; May 2, 2002; SRDB Ref ID: 19391

42 C.F.R. pt. 82, Methods for Radiation Dose Reconstruction Under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000; Final Rule; May 2, 2002; SRDB Ref ID: 

19392

42 C.F.R. pt. 83, Procedures for Designating Classes of Employees as Members of the Special 

Exposure Cohort Under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 

2000; Final Rule; May 28, 2004; SRDB Ref ID: 22001

42 U.S.C. §§ 7384-7385 [EEOICPA], Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000, as amended

Ames, 1951, Ames Laboratory; A history of the facility produced by the U.S. Atomic Energy 

Commission; August 1951; SRDB Ref ID: 18861 

Ames, 1960, Historical Development of the Ames Laboratory, Historical Supplement; Iowa State 

University, Ames Laboratory; January 25, 1960; SRDB Ref ID: 18832

Ames, 1962, Iowa State University, Institute for Atomic Research, Including the Ames Laboratory of 

the Atomic Energy Commission, Ames, Iowa; publicity brochure; date from context: 1962-63; SRDB 

Ref ID: 18856

Ames, 1967, Ames Laboratory - Iowa State University 25th Year Open House; U.S. Atomic Energy 

Commission, Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory; April 1967; SRDB Ref ID: 18830

Ames History, 1947, History of the Ames Project Under the Manhattan District to December 31, 

1946; AEC Research and Development Report prepared by Iowa State College; December 9, 1947; 

SRDB Ref ID: 18823

Architectural Survey, 2009, Historical & Architectural Survey & Evaluation, Section 110 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act Compliance Project: Facilities of the Ames Laboratory, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Iowa State University Campus, AKAY Consulting, Boone, Iowa; June 1, 

2009; SRDB Ref ID: 80590

Badging, 2006, ALRR Workers Badged?, email chain between D. B. Shipler (Pacific Northwest 

National Laboratory) and J. Martin (Dade Moeller, Inc.) concerning badging at the Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor (ALRR); October 31 – November 1, 2006; SRDB Ref ID: 29257

Battelle-TBD-6001, Site Profiles for Atomic Weapons Employers that Refined Uranium and Thorium, 

Rev. F0; Battelle; December 13, 2006; SRDB Ref ID: 30673
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Bihl, 2006, Estimated Releases from the Hot Laboratory in Ames Chemistry Building, memo with 

calculations from D. Bihl (Battelle) to NIOSH Dose Reconstruction Project Files; December 29, 2006; 

SRDB Ref ID: 29227

Contamination Reports, 1959-1961, Various Contamination Reports and Room Survey Reports, Iowa 

State University of Science and Technology; various authors and dates in 1959-1961; SRDB Ref ID: 

25778

Daane, 1959, Radiation Exposure of [Name Redacted] on April 1, 1959, interoffice communication 

from Dr. A. H. Daane to Dr. P. V. Van Bemmel; April 3, 1959; SRDB Ref ID: 25775, pdf p. 20

DOL, 2010, Letter from U.S. Department of Labor to National Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health, R. P. Leiton (DOL) to S. L. Hinnefeld (NIOSH); July 20, 2010; OSA Ref ID: 112217

Dust Samples, July 1943, Dust Sample Results Sheets for Iowa State College, Iowa State College; 

with cover memo from R. A. McDonald to U.S. Engineer Office, Manhattan District, Chicago Area; 

samples taken July 15, 1943; SRDB Ref ID: 8969

Dust Samples, May-June 1943, Dust Sample Results Sheets for Iowa State College, Iowa State 

College; various dates in May and June 1943; SRDB Ref ID: 8960

External Dose Records, 1952-2005, External Dose Records for Ames Laboratory for 1952-2005, 

Ames Laboratory; dose values by employee for 1952 through 2005; SRDB Ref ID: 29229

Hokel, 1998, An Assessment of the Causes, Mitigation Efforts, and Current Status of Th-232, U-238, 

and Beryllium Contamination in Wilhelm Hall at Ames Laboratory; Bruce Hokel, James H. Withers, 

W. Paul Waters, and Kenneth J. Ewing; April 1998; SRDB Ref ID: 18848

Iowa Official Register, 1961-1962, Iowa Offical Register, Number Forty-nine, 1961-1962, State of 

Iowa; Chapter 9: Schools, Colleges and Universities; Iowa State University of Science and 

Technology; Institute for Atomic Research; 1961; SRDB Ref ID: 82907, pdf pp. 253-255

Karsjen, 2003, The Ames Project: History of the Ames Laboratory’s Contributions to the Historic 

Manhattan Project, 1942-1946; Steven R. Karsjen, Ames Laboratory Public Affairs, Iowa State 

University; 2003; SRDB Ref ID: 18859

Klevin, 1952, Ames Research Laboratory Occupational Exposure to Thorium and Beryllium; Paul B. 

Klevin; July 14, 1952; SRDB Ref ID: 18942

NAS, 1989, Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests; National Academy of Sciences 

(NAS)-National Research Council; 1989; SRDB Ref ID: 1905

NCRP Pub 123, 1996, Screening Models for Releases of Radionuclides to Atmosphere, Surface Water, 

and Ground, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP); 1996; SRDB Ref 

ID: 79896 (commonly available from public resources)
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NIOSH, 1993, NIOSH Research Issues Workshop: Epidemiologic Use of Nondetectable Values in 

Radiation Exposure Measurements-Cincinnati, Ohio, September 9 and 10, 1993; proceedings 

compiled by John Cardarelli II, Larry Elliott, and Henry Spitz; September 9-10, 1993; SRDB Ref ID: 

13723

NIOSH, 2006, SEC Petition Evaluation Report, Petition SEC-00038; National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); April, 9, 2006; SRDB Ref IDs: 51256

NIOSH, 2007, SEC Petition Evaluation Report, Petition SEC-00075; National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); May 9, 2007; SRDB Ref ID: 54551

OCAS-IG-001, External Dose Reconstruction Implementation Guideline, Rev. 2, National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health; Cincinnati, Ohio; August 21, 2006; SRDB Ref ID: 29929

OCAS-PR-004, Internal Procedures for the Evaluation of Special Exposure Cohort Petitions, Rev. 0, 

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Cincinnati, Ohio; September 23, 2004; SRDB 

Ref ID: 32022

ORAUT-OTIB-0004, OTIB: Estimating the Maximum Plausible Dose to Workers at Atomic Weapons 

Employer Facilities, Rev. 03 PC-2; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; December 6, 2006; SRDB 

Ref ID: 29949

ORAUT-OTIB-0006, OTIB: Dose Reconstruction from Occupationally Related Diagnostic X-ray 

Procedures, Rev. 03 PC-1; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; December 21, 2005; SRDB Ref ID: 

20220

ORAUT-OTIB-0017, OTIB: Interpretation of Dosimetry Data for Assignment of Shallow Dose, Rev. 

01; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; October 11, 2005; SRDB Ref ID: 19434

ORAUT-OTIB-0020, OTIB: Use of Coworker Dosimetry Data for External Dose Assignment, Rev. 

02; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; December 4, 2008; SRDB Ref ID: 54985

ORAUT-OTIB-0024, OTIB: Estimation of Neutron Dose Rates from Alpha-Neutron Reactions in 

Uranium and Thorium Compounds, Rev. 00; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; April 7, 2005; 

SRDB Ref ID: 19445

ORAUT-TKBS-0055, Site Profile for Ames Laboratory, Rev. 01; Oak Ridge Associated Universities; 

December 18, 2009; SRDB Ref ID: 78037

Payne, 1992, The Ames Project: Administering Classified Research as a Part of the Manhattan 

Project at Iowa State College, 1942-1945, PhD dissertation; Carolyn Stilts Payne; 1992; SRDB Ref 

ID: 18851

Personal Communication, 2010a, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory Employee; 

Telephone interview by ORAU Team; May 5, 2010, 5:00 p.m.; SRDB Ref ID: 81938 
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Personal Communication, 2010b, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory Physicist; 

Telephone interview by ORAU Team; May 6, 2010, 11:00 a.m.; SRDB Ref ID: 81936 

Personal Communication, 2010c, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory Physics 

Assistant; Telephone interview by ORAU Team; May 6, 2010, 1:00 p.m.; SRDB Ref ID: 81937 

Personal Communication, 2010d, Personal Communication with Former Ames Laboratory Worker; 

Telephone interview by ORAU Team member; May 28, 2010, 3:00 p.m.; SRDB Ref ID: 82038 

Rad Handbook, 1970, Radiological Health Handbook, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and 

Welfare, Public Health Service; PHS-PUBL-2016; January 1970; SRDB Ref ID: 75017

Rad Handbook, 1998, Handbook of Health Physics and Radiological Health, 3rd Edition; B. Shleien, 

L. A. Slaback, Jr., B. K. Birky, editors; 1998; SRDB Ref ID: 22737 (commonly available from public 

resources)

Radiation Incident, 1960, Report of Radiation Incident: [Name Redacted] Incident, 7/21/60, M. D. 

Voss; Ames Laboratory; August 17, 1960; SRDB Ref ID: 25854 

Samples, 1952-1953, Various Urine, Air Dust and Slag Samples (1952-1953) for Ames Laboratory, 

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission New York Operations Office, Health and Safety Division; 1953; 

SRDB Ref ID: 8966

Stone, 1951, Industrial Medicine on the Plutonium Project: Survey and Collected Papers, see 

chapters by J. E. Wirth; Edited by Robert S. Stone; 1951; SRDB Ref ID: 739

Struss, 1986, The Building of the Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa; Roland Struss and Lesley Hawkins; 

October 1986; SRDB Ref ID: 18860

Synchrotron Badging, 2006, Unbadged Workers at the Synchrotron, email chain between D. B. 

Shipler (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and J. Martin (Dade Moeller, Inc.); October 31 –

November 1, 2006; SRDB Ref ID: 29256

Synchrotron Survey, 1961, Synchrotron Building Radiation Survey, Ames Laboratory, USAEC, Iowa 

State University, May 1961; SRDB Ref ID: 25766

Thorium Data, 1957, Thorium Bioassay and Sample Data Regarding July 9, 1957 Thorium Spill; 

SRDB Ref ID: 25773

Van Bemmel, 1957, Purpose for Periodical Physical Examinations of Employees at Ames Laboratory, 

memorandum; P. F. Van Bemmel; September 16, 1957; SRDB Ref ID: 18857

Van Horn, 1943, Medical Section Recommendations on Frequency of Examinations for Special 

Materials Workers, correspondence; E. L. Van Horn; September 4, 1943; SRDB Ref ID: 8908, pdf pp. 

5-7
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Voss, 1959-1960, X-Ray Exposure to Finger of [Names Redacted], interoffice communications from 

M. Voss to A. F. Voigt; Iowa State University of Science and Technology; September 2 and 16, 1959; 

February 4, 1960; SRDB Ref ID: 25775, pdf pp. 3, 4, and 17

Voss, 1963, Survey of Environmental Radioactivity: Ames Laboratory, U.S.A.E.C., Ames, Iowa; M. D. 

Voss, Radiological Services Group, Ames Laboratory; Report No. 1, December 31, 1963; SRDB Ref 

ID: 25165

Voss, 1979, History and Current Radiological Condition of the Ames Laboratory, correspondence and 

Report; Milo D. Voss; December 3, 1979; SRDB Ref ID: 18840

Wilhelm, post-1959, A History of Uranium Metal Production in America; H. A. Wilhelm; Date from 

context-sometime after 1959 (date of oldest reference); SRDB Ref ID: 18825

Wilson, 1960, Detection Level of the Film Badge System, R. H. Wilson; Radiation Protection 

Operation, Hanford Laboratories Operation, Exposure Evaluation and Records; HW-67697; 

November 28, 1960; SRDB Ref ID: 15403

Wilson, 1987, Historical Review of Personnel Dosimetry Development and its Use in Radiation 

Protection Programs at Hanford, 1944 to the 1980s, Report PNL-6125; R. H. Wilson; February 1987; 

SRDB Ref ID: 262

Wilson, 1990, Description and Evaluation of the Hanford Personnel Dosimeter Program From 1944 

Through 1989, prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy by Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Battelle 

Memorial Institute; PNL-7447 / UC606; September 1990; SRDB Ref ID: 4793
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Attachment 1: Data Capture Synopsis

Table A1-1: Data Capture Synopsis for Ames Laboratory

Data Capture Information General Description of Documents Captured Date 

Completed

Uploaded

To SRDB

Primary Site/Company Name: Ames Laboratory

DOE; 1942-present 

Contact: Industrial Safety 

Other Site Names: 

Iowa State 

242-Pu-94 experiment in room 29 Spedding Hall, activity in reactor 

effluents, air sample data sheets, Ames Laboratory description, 

environmental reports, atomic space living on the Manhattan Project, 

bioassay procedure and results, bremsstrahlung doses from natural 

uranium ingots, design and operation of a pilot plant for purification of 

thorium, external dose records, film badge specifications, health physics 

aspects of the neutron generator, incident reports, neutron film badge 

data, radiation surveys, reactor effluent reports, results of indoor radon 

monitoring, survey of ISU medical x-ray machine, Th-232, U-238, and 

beryllium contamination in Wilhelm Hall at Ames Laboratory, and Xray machine monitoring including doses from chest x-rays.

03/14/2007 286

State Contacted: Iowa Department of Public Health 

Contact: Bureau of Radiological Health

No relevant data identified. 06/03/2010 0

Cincinnati Public Library In-situ characterization technique for screening contaminated soils, 

instructions in applications of nuclear devices at Iowa State University, 

reduction of uranium with magnesium, radiation safety in the 

Manhattan Project 1942-1946, and uranium metal by carbon reduction 

of uranium oxide in vacuum.

05/25/2010 9

Claimant Miscellaneous Linde material. 04/18/2005 1

Department of Labor/Paragon Draft background and resurvey recommendations for the Atomic 

Energy Commission portion of the Lake Ontario Ordnance Works, 

uranium compounds, and operational reports.

12/30/2008 3

DOE Argonne National Laboratory Organization of National Nucleonics Program. 04/02/2008 1

DOE Brookhaven National laboratory Air monitoring parameters. 03/01/2006 1

DOE Germantown Documents regarding Westinghouse Atomic Power Development Plant, 

beryllium history, procurement, procedures and policies, exposure, 

hazards and safety, history and characterization about the University of 

California, elimination report, monthly accountability, thorium 

information, site summary and history, and Forest Hills location 

designation change and addition to covered facility list along with 

supporting documentation. 

06/18/2008 5
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Completed

Uploaded

To SRDB

DOE Hanford Hanford has provided a response to ORAU Team provided key words. 

The key word search results have been promulgated to affected Project 

and DCAS personnel for review and selection of desired material. 

Responses are due close of business June 28, 2010, afterwhich a 

summarized request will be submitted to Hanford and subsequent data 

capture scheduled.

OPEN N/A

DOE Legacy Management - Grand Junction Office Ames Laboratory site description, Brookhaven request for thorium 

fluoride, cast rod production, radiological survey program, Manhattan 

District History Book I - General Volume 4 Auxiliary Activities, 

monthly progress report, preparation of KUF5 and K2UCL6, processing 

losses of material, receiving report for stabilized zirconia casting mix, 

sewer contamination incident, shipment of thorium, soil contamination 

south end of physical chemistry annex, thorium operations at Ames, 

report of fire at Ames, and transmittal of invoices and receiving reports.

04/30/2010 50

DOE Legacy Management - MoundView (Fernald 

Holdings, includes Fernald Legal Database)

DOE precious metals program, analytical results for Ames thorium 

billet A-520, incineration of radioactive solid wastes, out of 

specification plutonium, uranium recycling, report on separation of 

thorium from a thorium fluoride sludge, Ames thorium process, status 

of off-site fuel element development programs, summary technical 

report, production of uranium feed materials, and ultrasonic inspection 

of thorium metal.

05/13/2010 18

DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos uranium metallurgy technical series 08/22/2007 3

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information 

(OSTI)

Report on survey of irradiation facilities. 09/25/2006 1

DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) GENII version 2 user's guide. 03/12/2007 1

DOE Savannah River Site Production of thorium at Ames, trip report including thorium meeting 

division of research, and thorium slugs for irradiation program.

07/22/2008 3

Internet - Ames Public Library No relevant data identified. 06/18/2010 0

Internet - Department of Energy Methods of separating U233 from thorium. 06/18/2008 1

Internet - DOE Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data 

Resource (CEDR)

No relevant data identified. 03/20/2010 0

Internet - DOE Hanford Declassified Document Retrieval 

System (DDRS)

Monthly Report Hanford Atomic Products Operation for April 1953. 03/20/2010 2
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Data Capture Information General Description of Documents Captured Date 

Completed

Uploaded

To SRDB

Internet - DOE Legacy Management Considered Sites Monthly progress report, authority review for MED operations 

conducted at Ames Laboratory, interim overview and certification 

activities report, research reactor facility, production of thorium metal, 

uranium contained in the Iowa State College dump, and a Tonawanda 

area progress report.

04/18/2010 9

Internet - DOE OpenNet Semiannual reports of the Atomic Energy Commission, Manhattan 

District History, Book I - General, Volume 7 - Medical Program, and 

activation test results of samples.

03/20/2010 8

Internet - DOE OSTI Energy Citations No relevant data identified. 03/20/2010 0

Internet - DOE OSTI Information Bridge Analysis of enriched and depleted uranium oxide powders, annual site 

environmental report, effects of temperature on mechanical properties 

or normal uranium dingot, in-situ monitoring of actinides and rare earth 

elements, low enrichment fuel conversion, neutron scattering studies, 

Nuclear Science and Technology extracts from Journal of Metallurgy 

and Ceramics, performance assessment modeling of high level nuclear 

waste forms from the pyroprocess fuel cycle, performance testing of 

multi-metal continuous emissions monitors, plutonium contamination 

monitoring, quarterly reports, radiological survey, sputtering of 

vanadium and niobium under 14.1 Mev neutron impact, uranium 

enrichment using plasma centrifuges, and X-ray K-edge analysis of 

drain lines in Wilhelm Hall.

03/20/2010 81

Internet - Google Environment, safety, health, and assurance trend analysis, 

contamination in Spedding Hall prior to start of energy savings project, 

application for use of radioactive materials, devices, and lasers, 

decontamination with lasers, dosimetry/personnel monitoring, Frank 

Harold Spedding information, campus maps, radiation safety manual, 

Radiological Protection Program information, RSO interview, annual 

site environmental report containing radiological doses and releases, 

and a waste minimization/pollution prevention plan.

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Internet - HP Journal No relevant data identified. 06/14/2010 0

Internet - Iowa State University Library No relevant data identified. 06/18/2010 0

Internet - Journal of Occupational and Environmental 

Health 

No relevant data identified. 06/14/2010 0

Internet - National Academies Press (NAP) No relevant data identified. 03/20/2010 0

Internet - National Nuclear Security Administration 

(NNSA) - Nevada Site Office

No relevant data identified. 03/20/2010 0
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Completed

Uploaded

To SRDB

Internet - NRC Agencywide Document Access and 

Management (ADAMS)

Annual operations report on Iowa State University's UTR- 10 Reactor, 

final status survey report for the Iowa State University UTR-10 Reactor, 

termination of facility operating license No. R-59 for the UTR-10 

research reactor, notification of reactor operator license cancellations, 

request for license amendment, and shipment of uranium fuel.

03/20/2010 19

Internet - US Army Corps of Engineers No relevant data identified. 04/18/2010 0

Internet - Washington State University (U.S. Transuranium 

and Uranium Registries)

No relevant data identified. 03/20/2010 0

Kansas City Federal Records Center Film badge reports. 10/16/2008 4

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -

Atlanta

Accountability reports of source and fissionable materials, acid 

treatment of thorium metal, air sampling results, breakdown of finished 

metal into green salt lots, comparison of yields from Mallinckrodt and 

Harshaw feed material, crushing brown oxide pellets, description of 

work done at Ames, instructions for billet production, Madison Square 

area monthly accountability reports, myrnalloy production - Iowa, 

procedures for handling by-product materials, proposed research 

program of Iowa, reactor development, receiving report receipts at 

Ames of thorium, trip report, requirements for x-slugs, semi-monthly 

reports, shipments of materials, thorium accountability report, thorium 

bearing residues, indoor radon study volumes 1 and 2, and urine results.

05/14/2010 130

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -

College Park

Unclassified Records Review: Survey reports and accountability 

related to beryllium, NCRP fertile women recommendation. (Research 

is ongoing with archivists at NARA Atlanta and NARA College Park to 

confirm location of records originally thought to be at the NARA 

Atlanta. Once boxes are located, data capture will be arranged.)

Classified Records Review: Correspondence from 1947-1950

OPEN 2

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -

Kansas City

Information on Oak Ridge facility decontamination history. 03/30/2005 1

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH)

Memorandum of understanding. 11/24/2009 1

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Summary of environmental emissions including equipment, facilities, 

and economic evaluations.

06/08/2010 1

ORAU Team Default assumptions and methods for atomic weapons employer dose 

reconstructions, occupational environmental doses for Ames 

Laboratory, U and Th operations, and processing uranium products.

06/24/2010 16

ORO Vault List of papers written on uranium. 11/24/2003 1
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Completed

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To SRDB

SAIC Radiation exposures by AEC Operating Office, radiation exposure 

summaries, and a summary of whole body radiation exposures to 

external penetrating radiation.

09/02/2004 7

San Bruno Federal Records Center Summaries of fuels and materials development programs. 01/31/2006 1

Sandy Cohen & Associates (SC&A) Highly enriched uranium working group report, and TR-119 to attend 

the research materials coordination and planning meeting. 

07/02/2008 4

Southern Illinois University Disposal of radioactive wastes in the metropolitan St. Louis area. 10/08/2008 2

Unknown Air samples, Blockson Chemical Company and other FUSRAP site 

information, semi-annual report of the Atomic Energy Commission, 

location of HP medical records - Mancuso Study, occupational exposure 

to thorium and beryllium, radiological hazards and controls for uranium 

operations, results of the doe indoor radon study, site history 

information, and urine, air dust, and slag sample results.

10/18/2003 34

TOTAL 750

Table A1-2: Database Searches for Ames Laboratory

Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

Ames Public Library

www.Catalogue.amespubliclibrary.org

COMPLETED 06/18/2010

Manhattan Engineering District + Ames

Manhattan Project + Ames

Ames Laboratory + nuclear

Ames Laboratory + atomic

Ames Laboratory + atomic

Ames + uranium

0 0

DOE CEDR

http://cedr.lbl.gov/

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

0 0
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Table A1-2: Database Searches for Ames Laboratory

Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

DOE Hanford DDRS

http://www2.hanford.gov/declass/

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

2 2

DOE Legacy Management Considered Sites

http://csd.lm.doe.gov/

COMPLETED 04/18/2010

Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility

Iowa State University

9 9

DOE OpenNet

http://www.osti.gov/opennet/advancedsearch.jsp

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

66 8

DOE OSTI Energy Citations

http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/19/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/19/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/19/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/19/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

12,319 0

DOE OSTI Information Bridge

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/advancedsearch.jsp

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/14/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/15/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/18/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/19/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/19/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/19/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

4,718 81

Google

http://www.google.com

COMPLETED 04/11/2010

americium OR Am241 OR Am-241 OR "AM 241" OR 241Am OR 

241-Am OR "241 Am" +"Ames Lab"

ionium OR Th230 OR Th-230 OR "Th 230" OR 230Th OR 230-Th OR 

"230 Th" +"Ames Lab"

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Table A1-2: Database Searches for Ames Laboratory

Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

neptunium OR Np237 OR Np-237 OR "Np 237" OR 237Np OR 237-

Np OR "237 Np"+"Ames Lab"

polonium OR Po210 OR Po-210 OR "Po 210" OR 210Po OR 210-Po 

OR "210 Po"+"Ames Lab"

thorium OR Th232 OR Th-232 OR "Th 232" OR 232Th OR 232-

Th+"Ames Lab"

"232 Th" OR "Z metal" OR myrnalloy OR "chemical 10-66" OR 

"chemical 10-12"+"Ames Lab"

ionium OR UX1 OR UX2 OR Th-230 OR Th230 OR "Th 230" OR 

230-Th OR "230 Th"+"Ames Lab"

230Th OR Th-234 OR Th234 OR "Th 234" OR 234-Th OR 234Th OR 

"234 Th"+"Ames Lab"

tritium OR H3 OR H-3 OR mint OR HTO+"Ames Lab"

uranium OR U233 OR U-233 OR "U 233" OR 233U OR 233-U OR 

"233 U" +"Ames Lab"

U234 OR "U 234" OR U-234 OR 234U OR 234-U OR "234 U" "Ames 

Lab"

U235 OR "U 235" OR U-235 OR 235-U OR 235U OR "235 U" OR 

U238+"Ames Lab"

"U 238" OR U-238 OR 238-U OR 238U OR "238 U"+"Ames Lab"

U308 OR "U 308" OR U-308 OR 308-U OR 308U OR "308 U" OR 

"uranium extraction" OR "black oxide" OR "brown oxide"+"Ames Lab"

"green salt" OR "orange oxide" OR "yellow cake" OR UO2 OR 

UO3+"Ames Lab"
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SRDB

UF4 OR UF6 OR C-216 OR C-616 OR C-65 OR C-211 OR 

U3O8+"Ames Lab"

plutonium OR Pu-238 OR Pu238 OR "Pu 238" OR 238Pu OR 238-Pu 

OR "238 Pu"+"Ames Lab"

Pu-239 OR Pu239 OR "Pu 239" OR 239Pu OR 239-Pu OR "239 

Pu"+"Ames Lab"

Pu-240 OR Pu240 OR "Pu 240" OR 240Pu OR 240-Pu OR "240 Pu" 

+"Ames Lab"

Pu-241 OR Pu241 OR "Pu 241" OR 241Pu OR 241-Pu OR "241 

Pu"+"Ames Lab"

radium OR Ra-226 OR Ra226 OR "Ra 226" OR 226-Ra OR 226Ra OR 

226-Ra+"Ames Lab"

Ra-228 OR Ra228 OR "Ra 228" OR 228Ra OR 228-Ra OR "228 

Ra"+"Ames Lab"

radon OR Rn-222 OR Rn222 OR "Rn 222" OR 222Rn OR 222-Rn OR 

"222 Rn"+"Ames Lab"

thoron OR Rn-220 OR Rn220 OR "Rn 220" OR 220Rn OR 220-Rn OR 

"220 Rn"+"Ames Lab"

protactinium OR Pa-234m OR Pa234m OR "Pa 234m" OR 234mPa OR 

234m-Pa OR "234m Pa"+"Ames Lab"

strontium OR Sr-90 OR Sr90 OR "Sr 90" OR 90-Sr OR 90Sr OR "90 

Sr"+"Ames Lab"

oralloy OR postum OR tuballoy OR "uranyl nitrate hexahydrate" OR 

UNH OR K-65 OR "sump cake"+"Ames Lab"
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SRDB

"uranium dioxide" OR "uranium tetrafluoride" OR "uranium 

trioxide"+"Ames Lab"

"uranium hexafluoride" OR "air count"+"Ames Lab"

accident+"Ames Lab"

"air dust" OR "air filter" OR "airborne test"+"Ames Lab"

"alpha particle" OR "belgian congo ore" OR bioassay OR bioassay+"Ames Lab"

breath OR "breathing zone" OR BZ OR calibration OR "chest count" 

OR collimation OR columnation+"Ames Lab"

contamination OR curie OR denitration OR "denitration pot"+"Ames 

Lab"

derby OR regulus OR dose OR dosimeter+"Ames Lab"

dosimetric OR dosimetry+"Ames Lab"

electron+"Ames Lab"

environment+"Ames Lab"

"Ether-Water Project" OR exposure OR "exposure investigation" OR 

"radiation exposure"+"Ames Lab"

external+"Ames Lab"

"F machine" OR fecal OR "feed material" OR femptocurie+"Ames 

Lab"

film OR fission OR fluoroscopy+"Ames Lab"

"Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program" OR FUSRAP OR 

gamma-ray OR "gas proportional" OR "gaseous diffusion"+"Ames 

Lab"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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SRDB

health OR "health instrument" OR "health physics"+"Ames Lab"

"H.I." OR HI OR HP OR "highly enriched uranium" OR HEU+"Ames 

Lab"

hydrofluorination OR "in vitro" OR "in vivo"+"Ames Lab"

incident OR ingestion OR inhalation OR internal+"Ames Lab"

investigation+"Ames Lab"

isotope OR isotopic OR "isotopic enrichment" OR "JS Project" OR 

Landauer OR "liquid scintillation"+"Ames Lab"

log OR "log sheet" OR "log book" OR "low enriched uranium" OR 

LEU+"Ames Lab"

"maximum permissible concentration" OR MPC OR metallurgy OR 

microcurie OR millicurie+"Ames Lab"

"mixed fission product" OR MFP OR monitor OR "air monitoring" OR 

nanocurie OR "nasal wipe" OR neutron OR "nose wipe"+"Ames Lab"

nuclear OR Chicago-Nuclear OR "nuclear fuels" OR "nuclear track 

emulsion" OR "type A"+"Ames Lab"

NTA OR "occupational radiation exposure" OR occurrence OR "ore 

concentrate" OR "PC Project"+"Ames Lab"

permit OR "radiation work permit" OR "safe work permit" OR "special 

work permit" OR RWP OR SWP+"Ames Lab"

"phosphate research" OR photofluorography OR photon OR picocurie 

OR pitchblende OR "pocket ion chamber" OR PIC+"Ames Lab"

problem+"Ames Lab"

procedure+"Ames Lab"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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SRDB

radeco OR radiation+"Ames Lab"

radioactive+"Ames Lab"

radioactivity+"Ames Lab"

radiograph OR radiological+"Ames Lab"

"Radiological Survey Data Sheet" OR RSDS OR radionuclide OR 

raffinate OR reactor+"Ames Lab"

respiratory OR "retention schedules" OR roentgen+"Ames Lab"

sample+"Ames Lab"

"air sample"+"Ames Lab"

"dust sample" OR "general area air sample"+"Ames Lab"

"solvent extraction"+"Ames Lab"

source+"Ames Lab"

"sealed source"+"Ames Lab"

spectra+"Ames Lab"

spectrograph+"Ames Lab"

spectroscopy+"Ames Lab"

spectrum+"Ames Lab"

standard+"Ames Lab"

"operating standard" OR "processing standard"+"Ames Lab"

survey+"Ames Lab"

"building survey" OR "routine survey"+"Ames Lab"

"special survey" OR "technical basis"+"Ames Lab"

"thermal diffusion" OR "thermoluminescent dosimeter" OR TLD OR 

"Tiger Team"+"Ames Lab"

"tolerance dose" OR urinalysis OR urine OR "whole body count" OR 

WBC+"Ames Lab"

"working level" OR WL+"Ames Lab"

X-ray+"Ames Lab"

"X ray"+"Ames Lab"

Xray+"Ames Lab"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

"x-ray screening"+"Ames Lab"

americium OR Am241 OR Am-241 OR "AM 241" OR 241Am OR 

241-Am OR "241 Am"+"Iowa State University"

ionium OR Th230 OR Th-230 OR "Th 230" OR 230Th OR 230-Th OR 

"230 Th"+"Iowa State University"

neptunium OR Np237 OR Np-237 OR "Np 237" OR 237Np OR 237-

Np OR "237 Np"+"Iowa State University"

polonium OR Po210 OR Po-210 OR "Po 210" OR 210Po OR 210-Po 

OR "210 Po"+"Iowa State University"

thorium+"Iowa State University"

Th232 OR Th-232+"Iowa State University"

"Th 232" OR 232Th OR 232-Th+"Iowa State University"

"232 Th" OR "Z metal" OR myrnalloy OR "chemical 10-66" OR 

"chemical 10-12"+"Iowa State University"

ionium OR UX1 OR UX2 OR Th-230 OR Th230 OR "Th 230" OR 

230-Th OR "230 Th"+"Iowa State University"

230Th OR Th-234 OR Th234 OR "Th 234" OR 234-Th OR 234Th OR 

"234 Th"++"Iowa State University"

tritium +"Iowa State University"

H3+"Iowa State University"

H-3+"Iowa State University"

mint+"Iowa State University"

HTO+"Iowa State University"

uranium+"Iowa State University"

U233 OR U-233 OR "U 233"+"Iowa State University"

233U OR 233-U OR "233 U" +"Iowa State University"
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SRDB

U234 OR "U 234" OR U-234 OR 234U OR 234-U OR "234 U"+"Iowa 

State University"

U235 OR "U 235" OR U-235 OR 235-U OR 235U OR "235 U" OR 

U238 +"Iowa State University"

"U 238" OR U-238 OR 238-U OR 238U OR "238 U"+"Iowa State 

University"

U308 OR "U 308" OR U-308 OR 308-U OR 308U OR "308 U" OR 

"uranium extraction" OR "black oxide" OR "brown oxide"+"Iowa State 

University"

"green salt" OR "orange oxide" OR "yellow cake" OR UO2 OR 

UO3+"Iowa State University"

UF4 OR UF6 OR C-216+"Iowa State University"

C-616 OR C-65 OR C-211 OR U3O8+"Iowa State University"

plutonium+"Iowa State University"

Pu-238 OR Pu238+"Iowa State University"

"Pu 238" OR 238Pu OR 238-Pu OR "238 Pu" +"Iowa State University"

Pu-239 OR Pu239 OR "Pu 239" OR 239Pu OR 239-Pu OR "239 

Pu"+"Iowa State University"

Pu-240 OR Pu240 OR "Pu 240" OR 240Pu OR 240-Pu OR "240 Pu" 

+"Iowa State University"

Pu-241 OR Pu241 OR "Pu 241" OR 241Pu OR 241-Pu OR "241 

Pu"+"Iowa State University"

radium+"Iowa State University"

Ra-226 OR Ra226+"Iowa State University"

"Ra 226" OR 226-Ra OR 226Ra OR 226-Ra+"Iowa State University"
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SRDB

Ra-228 OR Ra228 OR "Ra 228" OR 228Ra OR 228-Ra OR "228 

Ra"+"Iowa State University"

radon+"Iowa State University"

Rn-222 OR Rn222 OR "Rn 222" OR 222Rn OR 222-Rn OR "222 

Rn"+"Iowa State University"

thoron OR Rn-220 OR Rn220 OR "Rn 220" OR 220Rn OR 220-Rn OR 

"220 Rn"+"Iowa State University"

protactinium OR Pa-234m OR Pa234m OR "Pa 234m" OR 234mPa OR 

234m-Pa OR "234m Pa"+"Iowa State University"

strontium+"Iowa State University"

Sr-90 OR Sr90 OR "Sr 90" OR 90-Sr OR 90Sr OR "90 Sr"+"Iowa State 

University"

oralloy OR postum OR tuballoy OR "uranyl nitrate hexahydrate"+"Iowa 

State University"

UNH+"Iowa State University"

K-65 OR "sump cake"+"Iowa State University"

"uranium dioxide" OR "uranium tetrafluoride" OR "uranium 

trioxide"+"Iowa State University"

"uranium hexafluoride" OR "air count"+"Iowa State University"

accident+"Iowa State University"

"air dust" OR "air filter" OR "airborne test"+"Iowa State University"

"alpha particle" OR "belgian congo ore"+"Iowa State University"

bioassay OR bio-assay+"Iowa State University"

breath OR "breathing zone" OR BZ OR calibration OR "chest count" 

OR collimation OR columnation+"Iowa State University"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

contamination+"Iowa State University"

curie+"Iowa State University"

denitration OR "denitration pot"+"Iowa State University"

dose+"Iowa State University"

derby+"Iowa State University"

regulus OR dosimeter+"Iowa State University"

dosimetric OR dosimetry+"Iowa State University"

electron+"Iowa State University"

environment+"Iowa State University"

"Ether-Water Project" OR exposure OR "exposure investigation" OR 

"radiation exposure"+"Iowa State University"

external+"Iowa State University"

fecal+"Iowa State University"

"F machine" OR "feed material" OR femptocurie+"Iowa State 

University"

film+"Iowa State University"

fission OR fluoroscopy+"Iowa State University"

"Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program" OR FUSRAP OR 

gamma-ray OR "gas proportional" OR "gaseous diffusion"+"Iowa State 

University"

health+"Iowa State University"

"health instrument" OR "health physics"+"Iowa State University"

"H.I." OR HI OR HP+"Iowa State University"

"highly enriched uranium" OR HEU+"Iowa State University"

hydrofluorination OR "in vitro" OR "in vivo"+"Iowa State University"

incident+"Iowa State University"

ingestion OR inhalation OR internal+"Iowa State University"

investigation+"Iowa State University"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

isotope OR isotopic OR "isotopic enrichment" OR "JS Project" OR 

Landauer OR "liquid scintillation"+"Iowa State University"

log OR "log sheet" OR "log book" OR "low enriched uranium" OR 

LEU+"Iowa State University"

"maximum permissible concentration" OR MPC OR metallurgy OR 

microcurie OR millicurie+"Iowa State University"

"mixed fission product" OR MFP OR monitor OR "air monitoring" OR 

nanocurie OR "nasal wipe" OR neutron OR "nose wipe"+"Iowa State 

University"

nuclear+"Iowa State University"

Chicago-Nuclear OR "nuclear fuels" OR "nuclear track emulsion" OR 

"type A" +"Iowa State University"

NTA OR "occupational radiation exposure" OR "ore concentrate" OR 

"PC Project"+"Iowa State University"

occurrence+"Iowa State University"

permit+"Iowa State University"

"radiation work permit" OR "safe work permit" OR "special work 

permit" OR RWP OR SWP+"Iowa State University"

"phosphate research" OR photofluorography OR photon OR picocurie 

OR pitchblende OR "pocket ion chamber" OR PIC+"Iowa State 

University"

problem+"Iowa State University"

procedure+"Iowa State University"

radeco OR radiation+"Iowa State University"

radioactive+"Iowa State University"
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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

radioactivity+"Iowa State University"

radiograph OR radiological+"Iowa State University"

"Radiological Survey Data Sheet" OR RSDS+"Iowa State University"

radionuclide+"Iowa State University"

raffinate OR reactor+"Iowa State University"

respiratory OR "retention schedules" OR roentgen+"Iowa State 

University"

sample+"Iowa State University"

"air sample"+"Iowa State University"

"dust sample" OR "general area air sample"+"Iowa State University"

"solvent extraction"+"Iowa State University"

source+"Iowa State University"

"sealed source"+"Iowa State University"

spectra+"Iowa State University"

spectrograph+"Iowa State University"

spectroscopy +"Iowa State University"

spectrum+"Iowa State University"

standard+"Iowa State University"

"operating standard" OR "processing standard"+"Iowa State University"

survey+"Iowa State University"

"building survey" OR "routine survey"+"Iowa State University"

"special survey" OR "technical basis"+"Iowa State University"

"thermal diffusion" OR "thermoluminescent dosimeter" OR TLD OR 

"Tiger Team"+"Iowa State University"

"tolerance dose" OR urinalysis OR urine OR "whole body count" OR 

WBC +"Iowa State University"

"working level" OR WL+"Iowa State University"

X-ray+"Iowa State University"

"X ray"+"Iowa State University"

Xray+"Iowa State University"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

"x-ray screening"+"Iowa State University"

americium OR Am241 OR Am-241 OR "AM 241" OR 241Am OR 

241-Am OR "241 Am"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

ionium OR Th230 OR Th-230 OR "Th 230" OR 230Th OR 230-Th OR 

"230 Th"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

neptunium OR Np237 OR Np-237 OR "Np 237" OR 237Np OR 237-

Np OR "237 Np"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

polonium OR Po210 OR Po-210 OR "Po 210" OR 210Po OR 210-Po 

OR "210 Po"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

thorium+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Th232 OR Th-232+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"Th 232" OR 232Th OR 232-Th+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

"232 Th" OR "Z metal" OR myrnalloy OR "chemical 10-66" OR 

"chemical 10-12"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

ionium OR UX1 OR UX2 OR Th-230 OR Th230 OR "Th 230" OR 

230-Th OR "230 Th"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

230Th OR Th-234 OR Th234 OR "Th 234" OR 234-Th OR 234Th OR 

"234 Th"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

tritium+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

H3+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

H-3+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

mint+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

HTO+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

uranium+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

U233 OR U-233 OR "U 233"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

U234 OR "U 234" OR U-234 OR 234U OR 234-U OR "234 U"+"Ames 

Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

U235 OR "U 235" OR U-235 OR 235-U OR 235U OR "235 U" OR 

U238 +"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"U 238" OR U-238 OR 238-U OR 238U OR "238 U"+"Ames 

Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

U308 OR "U 308" OR U-308 OR 308-U OR 308U OR "308 U" OR 

"uranium extraction" OR "black oxide" OR "brown oxide"+"Ames 

Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"green salt" OR "orange oxide" OR "yellow cake" OR UO2 OR 

UO3+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

UF4 OR UF6 OR C-216+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

C-616 OR C-65 OR C-211 OR U3O8+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"

plutonium+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Pu-238 OR Pu238+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"Pu 238" OR 238Pu OR 238-Pu OR "238 Pu" +"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

Pu-239 OR Pu239 OR "Pu 239" OR 239Pu OR 239-Pu OR "239 

Pu"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Pu-240 OR Pu240 OR "Pu 240" OR 240Pu OR 240-Pu OR "240 Pu" 

+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"
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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

Pu-241 OR Pu241 OR "Pu 241" OR 241Pu OR 241-Pu OR "241 

Pu"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

radium+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Ra-226 OR Ra226+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"Ra 226" OR 226-Ra OR 226Ra OR 226-Ra +"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

Ra-228 OR Ra228 OR "Ra 228" OR 228Ra OR 228-Ra OR "228 

Ra"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

radon+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Rn-222 OR Rn222 OR "Rn 222" OR 222Rn OR 222-Rn OR "222 

Rn"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

thoron OR Rn-220 OR Rn220 OR "Rn 220" OR 220Rn OR 220-Rn OR 

"220 Rn"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

protactinium OR Pa-234m OR Pa234m OR "Pa 234m" OR 234mPa OR 

234m-Pa OR "234m Pa"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

strontium+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Sr-90 OR Sr90 OR "Sr 90" OR 90-Sr OR 90Sr OR "90 Sr"+"Ames 

Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

oralloy OR postum OR tuballoy OR "uranyl nitrate 

hexahydrate"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

UNH+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

K-65 OR "sump cake"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"uranium dioxide" OR "uranium tetrafluoride" OR "uranium 

trioxide"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

"uranium hexafluoride" OR "air count"+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"

accident+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"air dust" OR "air filter" OR "airborne test"+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

"alpha particle" OR "belgian congo ore"+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"

bioassay OR bio-assay+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

breath OR "breathing zone" OR BZ OR calibration OR "chest count" 

OR collimation OR columnation+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

contamination+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

curie+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

denitration OR "denitration pot"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

dose+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

derby+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

regulus OR dosimeter+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

dosimetric OR dosimetry+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

electron+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

environment+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"Ether-Water Project" OR exposure OR "exposure investigation" OR 

"radiation exposure"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

external+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

fecal+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"F machine" OR "feed material" OR femptocurie+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

film+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

fission OR fluoroscopy+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program" OR FUSRAP OR 

gamma-ray OR "gas proportional" OR "gaseous diffusion"+"Ames 

Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

health+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"health instrument" OR "health physics"+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"

"H.I." OR HI OR HP+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"highly enriched uranium" OR HEU+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"

hydrofluorination OR "in vitro" OR "in vivo"+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

incident+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

ingestion OR inhalation OR internal+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"

investigation+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

isotope OR isotopic OR "isotopic enrichment" OR "JS Project" OR 

Landauer OR "liquid scintillation"+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

log OR "log sheet" OR "log book" OR "low enriched uranium" OR 

LEU+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"maximum permissible concentration" OR MPC OR metallurgy OR 

microcurie OR millicurie+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

"mixed fission product" OR MFP OR monitor OR "air monitoring" OR 

nanocurie OR "nasal wipe" OR neutron OR "nose wipe"+"Ames 

Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

nuclear+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Chicago-Nuclear OR "nuclear fuels" OR "nuclear track emulsion" OR 

"type A" +"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

NTA OR "occupational radiation exposure" OR "ore concentrate" OR 

"PC Project"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

occurrence+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

permit+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"radiation work permit" OR "safe work permit" OR "special work 

permit" OR RWP OR SWP+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

"phosphate research" OR photofluorography OR photon OR picocurie 

OR pitchblende OR "pocket ion chamber" OR PIC+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

problem+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

procedure+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

radeco OR radiation+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

radioactive+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

radioactivity+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"
SEC-00166 07-26-10 Ames Laboratory

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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

radiograph OR radiological+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

"Radiological Survey Data Sheet" OR RSDS+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

radionuclide+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

raffinate OR reactor+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

respiratory OR "retention schedules" OR roentgen+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

sample+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"air sample"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"dust sample" OR "general area air sample"+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

"solvent extraction"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

source+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"sealed source"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

spectra+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

spectrograph+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

spectroscopy+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

spectrum+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

standard+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"operating standard" OR "processing standard"+"Ames Laboratory 

Research Reactor Facility"

survey+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"building survey" OR "routine survey"+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"
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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

"special survey" OR "technical basis"+"Ames Laboratory Research 

Reactor Facility"

"thermal diffusion" OR "thermoluminescent dosimeter" OR TLD OR 

"Tiger Team"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"tolerance dose" OR urinalysis OR urine OR "whole body count" OR 

WBC +"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"working level" OR WL+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

X-ray+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"X ray"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Xray+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"x-ray screening"+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

americium OR Am241 OR Am-241 OR "AM 241" OR 241Am OR 

241-Am OR "241 Am"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

ionium OR Th230 OR Th-230 OR "Th 230" OR 230Th OR 230-Th OR 

"230 Th"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

neptunium OR Np237 OR Np-237 OR "Np 237" OR 237Np OR 237-

Np OR "237 Np"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

polonium OR Po210 OR Po-210 OR "Po 210" OR 210Po OR 210-Po 

OR "210 Po" +"Institute for Atomic Research"

thorium+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Th232 OR Th-232+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"Th 232" OR 232Th OR 232-Th+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"232 Th" OR "Z metal" OR myrnalloy OR "chemical 10-66" OR 

"chemical 10-12"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

ionium OR UX1 OR UX2 OR Th-230 OR Th230 OR "Th 230" OR 

230-Th OR "230 Th"+"Institute for Atomic Research"
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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

230Th OR Th-234 OR Th234 OR "Th 234" OR 234-Th OR 234Th OR 

"234 Th"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

tritium+"Institute for Atomic Research"

H3+"Institute for Atomic Research"

H-3+"Institute for Atomic Research"

mint+"Institute for Atomic Research"

HTO+"Institute for Atomic Research"

uranium+"Institute for Atomic Research"

U233 OR U-233 OR "U 233"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

U234 OR "U 234" OR U-234 OR 234U OR 234-U OR "234 

U"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

U235 OR "U 235" OR U-235 OR 235-U OR 235U OR "235 U" OR 

U238 +"Institute for Atomic Research"

"U 238" OR U-238 OR 238-U OR 238U OR "238 U"+"Institute for 

Atomic Research"

U308 OR "U 308" OR U-308 OR 308-U OR 308U OR "308 U" OR 

"uranium extraction" OR "black oxide" OR "brown oxide"+"Institute 

for Atomic Research"

"green salt" OR "orange oxide" OR "yellow cake" OR UO2 OR 

UO3+"Institute for Atomic Research"

UF4 OR UF6 OR C-216+"Institute for Atomic Research"

C-616 OR C-65 OR C-211 OR U3O8+"Institute for Atomic Research"

plutonium+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Pu-238 OR Pu238+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"Pu 238" OR 238Pu OR 238-Pu OR "238 Pu"+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"
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Database/Source Keywords / Phrases Hits Uploaded to 

SRDB

Pu-239 OR Pu239 OR "Pu 239" OR 239Pu OR 239-Pu OR "239 

Pu"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Pu-240 OR Pu240 OR "Pu 240" OR 240Pu OR 240-Pu OR "240 Pu" 

+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Pu-241 OR Pu241 OR "Pu 241" OR 241Pu OR 241-Pu OR "241 

Pu"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

radium+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Ra-226 OR Ra226+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"Ra 226" OR 226-Ra OR 226Ra OR 226-Ra +"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

Ra-228 OR Ra228 OR "Ra 228" OR 228Ra OR 228-Ra OR "228 

Ra"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

radon+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Rn-222 OR Rn222 OR "Rn 222" OR 222Rn OR 222-Rn OR "222 

Rn"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

thoron OR Rn-220 OR Rn220 OR "Rn 220" OR 220Rn OR 220-Rn OR 

"220 Rn"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

protactinium OR Pa-234m OR Pa234m OR "Pa 234m" OR 234mPa OR 

234m-Pa OR "234m Pa"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

strontium+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Sr-90 OR Sr90 OR "Sr 90" OR 90-Sr OR 90Sr OR "90 Sr"+"Institute 

for Atomic Research"

oralloy OR postum OR tuballoy OR "uranyl nitrate 

hexahydrate"+"Institute for Atomic Research"
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SRDB

UNH+"Institute for Atomic Research"

K-65 OR "sump cake"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"uranium dioxide" OR "uranium tetrafluoride" OR "uranium 

trioxide"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"uranium hexafluoride" OR "air count"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

accident+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"air dust" OR "air filter" OR "airborne test"+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

"alpha particle" OR "belgian congo ore"+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

bioassay OR bio-assay+"Institute for Atomic Research"

breath OR "breathing zone" OR BZ OR calibration OR "chest count" 

OR collimation OR columnation+"Institute for Atomic Research"

contamination+"Institute for Atomic Research"

curie+"Institute for Atomic Research"

denitration OR "denitration pot"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

dose+"Institute for Atomic Research"

derby+"Institute for Atomic Research"

regulus OR dosimeter+"Institute for Atomic Research"

dosimetric OR dosimetry+"Institute for Atomic Research"

electron+"Institute for Atomic Research"

environment+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"Ether-Water Project" OR exposure OR "exposure investigation" OR 

"radiation exposure"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

external+"Institute for Atomic Research"

fecal+"Institute for Atomic Research"
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SRDB

"F machine" OR "feed material" OR femptocurie+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

film+"Institute for Atomic Research"

fission OR fluoroscopy+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program" OR FUSRAP OR 

gamma-ray OR "gas proportional" OR "gaseous diffusion"+"Institute 

for Atomic Research"

health+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"health instrument" OR "health physics"+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

"H.I." OR HI OR HP+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"highly enriched uranium" OR HEU+"Institute for Atomic Research"

hydrofluorination OR "in vitro" OR "in vivo"+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

incident+"Institute for Atomic Research"

ingestion OR inhalation OR internal+"Institute for Atomic Research"

investigation+"Institute for Atomic Research"

isotope OR isotopic OR "isotopic enrichment" OR "JS Project" OR 

Landauer OR "liquid scintillation"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

log OR "log sheet" OR "log book" OR "low enriched uranium" OR 

LEU+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"maximum permissible concentration" OR MPC OR metallurgy OR 

microcurie OR millicurie+"Institute for Atomic Research"
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SRDB

"mixed fission product" OR MFP OR monitor OR "air monitoring" OR 

nanocurie OR "nasal wipe" OR neutron OR "nose wipe"+"Institute for 

Atomic Research"

nuclear+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Chicago-Nuclear OR "nuclear fuels" OR "nuclear track 

emulsion"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"type A" +"Institute for Atomic Research"

NTA OR "occupational radiation exposure" OR "ore concentrate" OR 

"PC Project"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

occurrence+"Institute for Atomic Research"

permit+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"radiation work permit" OR "safe work permit" OR "special work 

permit" OR RWP OR SWP+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"phosphate research" OR photofluorography OR photon OR picocurie 

OR pitchblende OR "pocket ion chamber" OR PIC+"Institute for 

Atomic Research"

problem+"Institute for Atomic Research"

procedure+"Institute for Atomic Research"

radeco OR radiation+"Institute for Atomic Research"

radioactive+"Institute for Atomic Research"

radioactivity+"Institute for Atomic Research"

radiograph OR radiological+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"Radiological Survey Data Sheet" OR RSDS+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

radionuclide+"Institute for Atomic Research"
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SRDB

raffinate OR reactor+"Institute for Atomic Research"

respiratory OR "retention schedules" OR roentgen+"Institute for 

Atomic Research"

sample+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"air sample"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"dust sample" OR "general area air sample"+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

"solvent extraction"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

source+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"sealed source"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

spectra+"Institute for Atomic Research"

spectrograph+"Institute for Atomic Research"

spectroscopy+"Institute for Atomic Research"

spectrum+"Institute for Atomic Research"

standard+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"operating standard" OR "processing standard"+"Institute for Atomic 

Research"

survey+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"building survey" OR "routine survey"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"special survey" OR "technical basis"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"thermal diffusion" OR "thermoluminescent dosimeter" OR TLD OR 

"Tiger Team"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"tolerance dose" OR urinalysis OR urine OR "whole body count" OR 

WBC +"Institute for Atomic Research"

"working level" OR WL+"Institute for Atomic Research"

X-ray+"Institute for Atomic Research"
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SRDB

"X ray"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Xray+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"x-ray screening"+"Institute for Atomic Research"

ESH&A Program Manual+"Ames Lab"

ESH&A Program Manual+"Iowa State University"

ESH&A Program Manual+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor 

Facility"

ESH&A Program Manual+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Harley A. Wilhelm+"Ames Lab"

Harley A. Wilhelm+"Iowa State University"

Harley A. Wilhelm+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Harley A. Wilhelm+"Institute for Atomic Research"

Harley Wilhelm+"Ames Lab"

"Harley Wilhelm"+"Iowa State University"

Harley Wilhelm+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Harley Wilhelm+"Institute for Atomic Research"

"Frank Spedding"+"Ames Lab"

"Frank Spedding"+"Iowa State University"

Frank Spedding+"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

Frank Spedding+"Institute for Atomic Research"

HP Journal

http://journals.lww.com/health-physics/pages/default.aspx

COMPLETED 06/14/2010

Ames 

Iowa State

43 0

Iowa State University Library

www.primofe-1.lib.iastate.edu

COMPLETED 06/18/2010

Manhattan Engineering District + Ames

Manhattan Engineering + Ames

0 0

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 

http://www.ijoeh.com/index.php/ijoeh

COMPLETED 06/14/2010

Ames 

Iowa State

30 0

National Academies Press

http://www.nap.edu/

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

2,288 0
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SRDB

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

NNSA - Nevada Site Office

www.nv.doe.gov/main/search.htm

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

0 0

NRC ADAMS Reading Room

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

550 19

USACE/FUSRAP

http://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/fusrap/

COMPLETED 04/18/2010

"Ames Lab"

"Iowa State University"

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"

"Institute for Atomic Research"

1 0

U.S. Transuranium & Uranium Registries 

http://www.ustur.wsu.edu/

COMPLETED 03/20/2010

"Ames Lab"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Iowa State University"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Ames Laboratory Research Reactor Facility"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Institute for Atomic Research"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Harley A. Wilhelm"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

"Frank Spedding"+01/01/1942 - 03/20/2010

0 0
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Date

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Date

DOC Number: NA

OSTI ID: 85990

Ref ID: 81050

In-Situ Characterization Technique for Screening Contaminated Soils 

from Journal of Environmental Engineering, Vol 121(7):521-526, July 

1995

05/04/2010 05/04/2010

DOC Number: NA

OSTI ID: 4351662

Ref ID: 81221

Reduction of Uranium With Magnesium, Metal Progress, Vol 69(3):81-

88, Mar 1956

05/04/2010 05/04/2010

DOC Number: NA

OSTI ID: 5268990

Ref ID: 81220

Waste Fuel Mix Saves University $41,600 Yearly from Energy User 

News Vol 7(23):5, Jun 7, 1982

05/04/2010 05/04/2010

DOC Number: CONF-890604

OSTI ID: 6757028

Ref ID: 81219

The Role of the Iowa State University Research Reactor in Nuclear 

Engineering Education from Transactions of the American Nuclear 

Society, Vol 59, Annual Meeting of the American Nuclear Society, 4-8 

Jun 1989

05/04/2010 05/05/2010

DOC Number: CONF-690312

OSTI ID: 4150845

Ref ID: 81286

Instructions in Applications of Nuclear Devices at Iowa State 

University from Education for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosives 

from Symposium on Education for the Peaceful uses of Nuclear 

Explosives Pp 281-283, Jan 1970

05/04/2010 05/10/2010

DOC Number: CONF-660630; IS-1379

OSTI ID: 4509093

Ref ID: 81752

Uranium Metal by Carbon Reduction of Uranium Oxide in Vacuum 

from Vacuum Metallurgy Conference, Jun 14, 1966

05/04/2010 05/25/2010

DOC Number: NA

OSTI ID: 4663051

Ref ID: 81288

Environmental Trace Element Survey at a Heavy Metals Refining Site, 

Nuclear Methods in Environmental Research from Meeting on Nuclear 

Methods in Environmental Research, Pp 172-185, Jan 1971

04/28/2010 05/11/2010

DOC Number: NA

OSTI ID: 381792

Ref ID: 81287

Full-Scale Technology Demonstration of a Polyethylene Encapsulation 

Process for Radioactive, Hazardous, and Mixed Wastes from Journal of 

Environmental Science and Health, Part A: Environmental Science and 

Engineering, Vol 31(7):1767-1780, Aug 1996

04/28/2010 05/11/2010

DOC Number: UNI-SA-103; CONF-821005-4

OSTI ID: 5115872

Ref ID: NA

Decommissioning of the Ames Laboratory Research Reactor from DOE 

International Decommissioning Symposium, Oct 10, 1982

04/28/2010
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Date

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Date

DOC Number: IS-4789

OSTI ID: 5402590

Ref ID: 25824

Decommissioning of the Ames Laboratory Research Reactor. Final 

Report, Dec 1981

04/28/2010 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4798

OSTI ID: 5304492

Ref ID: 25429

Environmental Monitoring Summary for Ames Laboratory: Calendar 

Year 1981, Apr 1982

04/28/2010 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-1098

OSTI ID: 4641828

Ref ID: 25884

Survey of Environmental Radioactivity (Cy 1963?), December 1964 04/28/2010 04/28/2010

DOC Number: PB-274552

OSTI ID: 6812936

Ref ID: 81261

Evaluation of the Ames Solid Waste Recovery System. Part I. Summary 

of Environmental Emissions: Equipment, Facilities, and Economic 

Evaluations. Interim Report 5 Feb 76--4 Feb 77, Nov 1977

04/28/2010 06/08/2010

DOC Number: CC-2401

OSTI ID: 4365563

Ref ID: NA

A Method of Recovering Thorium from Slag Materials. Problem 

Assignment No. 16, Mar 23, 1945

04/28/2010

DOC Number: WASH-149

OSTI ID: 4360605

Ref ID: NA

Air Cleaning Seminar, Ames Laboratory, September 15-17, 1952, Mar 

1954

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ANL-7934?

OSTI ID: 4638706

Ref ID: NA

Ames Laboratory Holly Programming System, January 1972 04/28/2010

DOC Number: ANL-7934?

OSTI ID: 4650114

Ref ID: NA

Ames Laboratory Interactive Hardware Programmed Polly, January 

1972

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4955

OSTI ID: 6617260

Ref ID: NA

Ames Laboratory Quarterly Report, October 1, 1987--December 31, 

1987, Feb 1988

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-3483

OSTI ID: 4249469

Ref ID: NA

Ames Laboratory Reactor Operator Training Program, Aug 1974 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-1500

OSTI ID: 4530066

Ref ID: NA

Annual Summary Research Report in Engineering, Oct 31, 1966 04/28/2010
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DOC Number: IS-1500, Sect M

OSTI ID: 4518493

Ref ID: NA

Annual Summary Research Report in Metallurgy, Oct 31, 1966 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-1500, Sect P

OSTI ID: 4508143

Ref ID: NA

Annual Summary Research Report in Physics, Oct 31, 1966 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-900

OSTI ID: 4666506

Ref ID: NA

Annual Summary Research Report of Chemistry, Engineering, 

Metallurgy, Physics And Reactor Divisions, July 1, 1963-June 30, 1964, 

Sep 1964

04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECU-1817

OSTI ID: 4394686

Ref ID: NA

Backscattering of Beta-Rays In Windowless Geiger-Muller Counters, 

Oct 31, 1952

04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECD-3249

OSTI ID: 4399591

Ref ID: NA

Compounds of Thorium with Transition Metals I. The ThoriumManganese System, Aug 24, 195104/28/2010

DOC Number: M-4585

OSTI ID: 4365308

Ref ID: NA

Corrosion of Thorium and Related Materials, Oct 31, 1956 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-T-1555

OSTI ID: 10140375

Ref ID: NA

Encapsulation of Hazardous Wastes into Agglomerates, Jan 28, 1992 04/28/2010

DOC Number: DOE/EA-0434

OSTI ID: 7043259

Ref ID: NA

Environmental Assessment for US Department of Energy Support of an 

Iowa State University Linear Accelerator Facility at Ames, Iowa, May 

1990

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4734

OSTI ID: 5309715

Ref ID: NA

Environmental Monitoring at Ames Laboratory: Calendar Year 1979, 

Apr 1980

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4844

OSTI ID: 6681447

Ref ID: NA

Environmental Research and Development Measurement and 

Dosimetry. Quarterly Report, April 1, 1983-June 30, 1983, Oct 1983

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4869

OSTI ID: 6011268

Ref ID: NA

Environmental Research and Development: Measurement and 

Dosimetry. Quarterly Report, April 1-June 30, 1984, Sep 1984

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ANL-7934?

OSTI ID: 4626725

Ref ID: NA

General Description of the Ames Laboratory Polly, January 1972 04/28/2010
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DOC Number: IS-4818

OSTI ID: 5722416

Ref ID: NA

Health and Environmental Research. Quarterly Report, April 1-June 30, 

1982, Nov 1982

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4791

OSTI ID: 5171787

Ref ID: NA

Health and Environmental Research. Quarterly Report, October 1-

December 31, 1981. [Health And Environmental Effects of Waste and 

Biomass to Energy Processes], Apr 1982

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4841

OSTI ID: 5534946

Ref ID: NA

Identification and Characterization of Pollutants. Quarterly Report, 

January 1-March 31, 1983, Jun 1983

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-653

OSTI ID: 4362480

Ref ID: NA

Kinetics of the Reaction Between Thorium and Water Vapor, Jun 1955 04/28/2010

DOC Number: DOE/ER/75360-2

OSTI ID: 5374102

Ref ID: NA

Low Enrichment Fuel Conversion for Iowa State University, Aug 1990 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4718

OSTI ID: 5585528

Ref ID: NA

Office of Health and Environmental Research. Quarterly Report, April 

1, 1979-June 30, 1979. [Ames Municipal Solid Waste Recovery 

System], Oct 1979

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-2600

OSTI ID: 4691951

Ref ID: NA

Physics Division, January 1971 04/28/2010

DOC Number: CC-2962

OSTI ID: 4365562

Ref ID: NA

Precipitation of Thorium Oxalate from Nitric Acid Solutions. Problem 

No. 117, Oct 1945

04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECD-4001

OSTI ID: 4360182

Ref ID: NA

Progress Report in Metallurgy, April 1, 1949 to September 30, 1949, 

Nov 15, 1949

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-135

OSTI ID: 4409518

Ref ID: NA

Progress Report in Physics for the Period July 1, 1950, to December 31, 

1950, Mar 15, 1951

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4740

OSTI ID: 5375416

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Report, 1 January-31 March 1980, May 1980 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-4735

OSTI ID: 5267734

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Report, 1 October-31 December 1979, Mar 1980 04/28/2010
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DOC Number: IS-4707

OSTI ID: 5829597

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Report, January 1-March 31, 1979, Jul 1979 04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-69

OSTI ID: 4337900

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Summary Research Report for April, May, and June 1949, 

Nov 28, 1949

04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECD-4023

OSTI ID: 4360181

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Summary Research Report for July, August, and September 

1951, Nov 15, 1951

04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECD-3929

OSTI ID: 4366878

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Summary Research Report for October, November, and 

December 1950, Jan 30, 1951

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-642

OSTI ID: 4364249

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Summary Research Report in Engineering for April, May, 

June 1955, Nov 23, 1955

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-487

OSTI ID: 4363962

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Summary Research Report in Physics for January, February, 

and March 1954, Jun 26, 1954

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-533

OSTI ID: 4382994

Ref ID: NA

Quarterly Summary Research Report in Physics for July, August, and 

September 1954, Dec 21, 1954

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-900

OSTI ID: 4643927

Ref ID: NA

Reactor Division, Oct 31, 1965 04/28/2010

DOC Number: CONF-641207-5

OSTI ID: 4643940

Ref ID: NA

Regulations and Control for Radiation Protection. Paper No. 64-819 

From American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Winter Meeting, 

Dec 31, 1965

04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECD-4046

OSTI ID: 4360180

Ref ID: NA

Semi-Annual Progress Report in Metallurgy for The Period October 1, 

1950- March 31, 1951, May 1951

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-757

OSTI ID: 4358865

Ref ID: NA

Semi-Annual Summary Research Report in Chemistry for January-June 

1956, Oct 12, 1956

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-834

OSTI ID: 4368061

Ref ID: NA

Semi-Annual Summary Research Report in Chemistry for JulyDecember 1956, Mar 15, 195704/28/2010
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DOC Number: ISC-760

OSTI ID: 4366223

Ref ID: NA

Semi-Annual Summary Research Report in Engineering for JanuaryJune 1956, Oct 1, 195604/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-836

OSTI ID: 4366534

Ref ID: NA

Semi-Annual Summary Research Report in Engineering for JulyDecember 1956, Mar 15, 195704/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-463

OSTI ID: 4361723

Ref ID: NA

Solubility of Carbon in Thorium, Feb 18, 1954 04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECD-3206; ISC-102

OSTI ID: 4408189

Ref ID: NA

Some Studies on the Uranium-Thorium-Zirconium Ternary Alloy 

System, June 1950

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-1523

OSTI ID: 4439008

Ref ID: NA

Survey of Environmental Radioactivity (Cy 1966?), January 1967 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-2154

OSTI ID: 4768629

Ref ID: NA

Survey of Environmental Radioactivity for Period January 1, 1969 to 

June 30, 1969, Jan 1969

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-1924

OSTI ID: 4486804

Ref ID: NA

Survey of Environmental Radioactivity for Period January 1--June 30, 

1968, Jan 1968

04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-1647

OSTI ID: OSTI ID: 4275110

Ref ID: NA

Survey of Environmental Radioactivity for Period, January 1, 1967--

June 30, 1967, Jan 1967

04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-14

OSTI ID: 4338203

Ref ID: NA

The Chelate Compounds of Plutonium (Thesis), May 25, 1946 04/28/2010

DOC Number: IS-986

OSTI ID: 4649643

Ref ID: NA

The Creep of Thorium Near Room Temperature, Sep 1964 04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-417

OSTI ID: 4406585

Ref ID: NA

The Determination of Mesothorium in Thorium Nitrate, Nov 1953 04/28/2010

DOC Number: AECD-3544; ISC-391

OSTI ID: 4408551

Ref ID: NA

The Niobium-Thorium Alloy System, Aug 13, 1953 04/28/2010
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DOC Number: TSC-700

OSTI ID: 4357623

Ref ID: NA

The Stress-Strain Characteristics of Uranium, Dec 1955 04/28/2010

DOC Number: ISC-48

OSTI ID: 4363430

Ref ID: NA

Thorium Alloys--The Thorium-Bismuth System, Jul 12, 1950 04/28/2010

DOC Number: DOE/EH-0264

OSTI ID: 10154495

Ref ID: NA

Tiger Team Assessment of the Ames Laboratory, Mar 1992 04/28/2010